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“Men have been taught that their first concern is to relieve the suffering of others. ... To make that the highest test of virtue is to make suffering the most important part of life. Then man must wish to see others suffer in order that he may be virtuous. Such is the nature of altruism.”

Men Firsts May Has Beens Important Suffering Order Wish Virtue Taught Highest Concern Tests Virtuous Altruism Parts Of Life Fountainhead Suffering Of Others

Book:For the New Intellectual: The Philosophy of Ayn Rand (50th Anniversary Edition)

Source: For the New Intellectual: The Philosophy of Ayn Rand (50th Anniversary Edition)

“People are beginning to wish that the voters had been given breathometer tests when they voted in the present government.”

People Government Given Wish Tests Voters

Author:William F. Buckley, Jr.

“I believe-and human psychologists, particularly psychoanalysts should test this-that present-day civilized man suffers from insufficient discharge of his aggressive drive. It is more than probable that the evil effects of the human aggressive drives, explained by Sigmund Freud as the results of a special death wish, simply derive from the fact that in prehistoric times intra-specific selection bred into man a measure of aggression drive for which in the social order today he finds no adequate outlet.”

Source: ON AGRESSION

“It is said that ridicule is the test of truth: it is never applied, but when we wish to deceive ourselves.”

Said Wish Tests Deceiving Ridicule

Book:The Complete Works of L. E. Landon ...

Source: The Complete Works of L. E. Landon ...