Talk Straight, Or Twist Words?

""Me?" Kinnan chuckled mirthlessly. "What use would he have for me? I'll be the first one to go down the drain when he wins. . . . It's only" - glanced wistfully up at the ceiling - "it's only that he's a man who talks straight."

- Atlas Shrugged, Ayn Rand, pg 1106

Second Handers

"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

I Got No Duty

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Talk Straight, Or Twist Words?