#IDONTEXIST4U - I Deal With Traders, NOT Beggars

"Rearden: "The worst thing about people is not the insults they hand out, but the compliments. I couldn't bear the kind they spouted tonight, particularly when they kept saying how much everybody needs me - they, the city, the country and the whole world, I guess. Apparently, their idea of the height of glory is to deal with people who need them. I can't stand people who need me."

"Rearden to Dagny you say it, "Like a trader - who pays for what he wants. They say it like beggars who use a tin cup as a claim check.""

- Atlas Shrugged, Ayn Rand, pg 276

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

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