I Got No Duty

"It takes only a single out-of-focus instant

to get run over.

No matter how many times in the past you have been careful.

The pursuit of self-interest is a full-time job.

Every lapse endangers that pursuit." pg 210-211

- Peter Schwartz, In Defense of Selfishness

"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