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“He felt nothing for them now, nothing but the merciless zero of indifference, not even the regret of a loss.”

Indifference Atlas Shrugged Hank Rearden

Author:Ayn Rand

“...he had acquired the conviction that one had to concern oneself with the rational, not the insane—that one had to seek that which was right, because the right answer always won—that the senseless, the wrong, the monstrously unjust could not work, could not succeed, could do nothing but defeat itself.”

Rational Wrong Right Atlas Shrugged Hank Rearden

Book:Atlas Shrugged

Source: Atlas Shrugged

“Don’t tell me your evaluation. Give me the facts.”

Facts Atlas Shrugged Hank Rearden

Book:Atlas Shrugged

Source: Atlas Shrugged

“The justice which would forgive miles of innocent errors of knowledge, would not forgive a single step taken in conscious evil.”

Evil Justice Atlas Shrugged Hank Rearden

Book:Atlas Shrugged

Source: Atlas Shrugged

“It was his self-esteem she had sought to destroy, knowing that a man who surrenders his value is at the mercy of anyone’s will; it was his moral purity she had struggled to breach, it was his confident rectitude she had wanted to shatter by means of the poison of guilt—as if, were he to collapse, his depravity would give her a right to hers.”

Evil Atlas Shrugged Hank Rearden

Book:Atlas Shrugged

Source: Atlas Shrugged

“...he had never known fear because, against any disaster, he had held the omnipotent cure of being able to act.”

Fearless Atlas Shrugged Hank Rearden

Book:Atlas Shrugged

Source: Atlas Shrugged

“He saw for the first time that he had never known fear because, against any disaster, he had held the omnipotent cure of being able to act.”

Fearless Atlas Shrugged Hank Rearden

Book:Atlas Shrugged

Source: Atlas Shrugged

“He despised causeless affection, just as he despised unearned wealth. They professed to love him for some unknown reason and they ignored all the things for which he could wish to be loved. He wondered what response they could hope to obtain from him in such manner—if his response was what they wanted.”

Love Response Affection Atlas Shrugged Hank Rearden

Book:Atlas Shrugged

Source: Atlas Shrugged

“Thought—he told himself quietly—is a weapon one uses in order to act. No action was possible. Thought is the tool by which one makes a choice. No choice was left to him. Thought sets one’s purpose and the way to reach it. In the matter of his life being torn piece by piece out of him, he was to have no voice, no purpose, no way, no defense.”

Thought Atlas Shrugged Hank Rearden

Book:Atlas Shrugged

Source: Atlas Shrugged

“Dagny leaned back in her chair. The short sentence was a shock. It was not merely relief: it was the sudden realization that nothing else was necessary to guarantee that it would be done; she needed no proofs, no questions, no explanations; a complex problem could rest safely on three syllables pronounced by a man who knew what he was saying.”

Trust Confidence Reliability Atlas Shrugged Dagny Taggart Hank Rearden

Book:Atlas Shrugged

Source: Atlas Shrugged