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*Strange are the ways of
evil. We are false in the faces of our brothers. We are defying the will
of our Councils. We alone, of the thousands who walk this earth, we alone
in this hour are doing a work which has no purpose save that we wish to do
it.
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-Equality 7-2521, the hero in
Ayn Rand's
Anthem, 1937
Ch. I
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*We ask, why must we know, but it has no
answer to give us. We must know that we may know.
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-Equality 7-2521, the hero in Ayn Rand's
Anthem, 1937
Ch. I
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*[O]ur brothers are silent,
for they dare not speak the thoughts of their minds. For all must agree with
all, and they cannot know if their thoughts are the thoughts of all, and so
they fear to speak.
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-Equality 7-2521, the hero in Ayn Rand's
Anthem, 1937
Ch. II
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*I am neither foe nor
friend to my brothers, but such as each of them shall deserve of me. And
to earn my love, my brothers must do more than to have been born. I do not
grant my love without reason, not to any chance passer-by who may wish to
claim it. I honor men with my love. But honor is a thing to be earned.
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-Equality 7-2521, the hero in
Ayn Rand's
Anthem, 1937
Ch. XI
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*What is my joy if all
hands, even the unclean, can reach into it? What is my wisdom, if even the
fools can dictate to me. What is my freedom, if all creatures, even the
botched and the impotent, are my masters? What is my life, if I am but to
bow, to agree and to obey?
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-Equality 7-2521, the hero in Ayn Rand's
Anthem, 1937
Ch. XI
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*The word "We" is as lime
poured over men, which sets and hardens into stone, and crushes all beneath
it, and that which is white and that which is black are lost equally in the
grey of it. It is the word by which the depraved steal the virtue of the
good, by which the weak steal the might of the strong, by which the fools
steal the wisdom of the sages.
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-Equality 7-2521, the hero in
Ayn Rand's
Anthem, 1937
Ch. XI
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*And now I see the face of
god, and I raise this god over the earth, this god whom men have sought since
men came into being, this god who will grant them joy and piece and pride.
This god, this one word: 'I.'
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-Equality 7-2521, the hero in Ayn Rand's
Anthem, 1937
Ch. XI
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*Many words have been
granted me, and some are wise, and some are false, but only three are
holy: "I will it."
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-Equality 7-2521, the hero in Ayn Rand's
Anthem, 1937
Ch. XI
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*I shall build a barrier
of wires around my home; a barrier light as a cobweb, more impassible than
a wall of granite; a barrier my brothers will never be able to cross. For
they have nothing to fight me with, save the brute forces of their numbers.
I have my mind.
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-Equality 7-2521, the hero in Ayn Rand's
Anthem, 1937
Ch. XII
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*There is nothing to take a
man's freedom away from him, save other men. To be free, a man must be free
of his brothers.
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-Equality 7-2521, the hero in Ayn Rand's
Anthem, 1937
Ch. XII
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