I Got No Duty

"Just because something is true doesn't mean that it is important.

Sure relative to something false, it has greater importance.

But using a reasonable standard of value,

other truths may be substantially more important."

"Notice how they'll accept anything except a man who stands alone. They recognize him at once . . .

There's a special insidious kind of hatred for him. They forgive criminals. They admire dictators. Crime and violence are a tie. A form of mutual dependence.

They need ties. They've got to force their miserable little personalities on every single person they meet.

The independent man kills them - because they don't exist within him and that's the only form of existence they know. Notice the malignant kind of resentment against any idea that propounds independence.

Notice the malice toward an independent man."

- Ayn Rand Lexicon