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Sacrifice
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*If we have a society
where everyone sacrifices---just exactly who profits and who is happy?
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-Ayn Rand
Private correspondence to John Temple Graves (newspaper columnist), August
12, 1936
Letters of Ayn Rand, 1995
Chapter 1, "Arrival in America to We the Living (1926-1937)"
Michael S. Berliner, ed.
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*Yet the test should be
so simple: just listen to any prophet and if you hear him speak of
sacrifice---run.
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-Ellsworth Monkton Toohey, a villain in Ayn
Rand's
The Fountainhead, 1943
Part Four : Howard Roark, Ch. 14
(Toohey is a villain. However, his villainy lies in the fact that while he
knows the best way for men to live (according to Rand), he consciously preaches
the opposite philosophy, for his immorally selfish benefit. Thus, even
though it was put into the words of a villain, Rand would have agreed with
the quote.)
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*It stands to reason that
where there's sacrifice, there's someone collecting sacrificial offerings.
Where there's service, there's someone being served. The man who speaks
to you of sacrifice, speaks of slaves and masters. And intends to be the
master. But if you ever hear a man telling you that you must be happy,
that it's your natural right, that your first duty is to yourself---that
will be the man who's not after your soul.
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-Ellsworth Monkton Toohey, a villain in
Ayn Rand's
The Fountainhead, 1943
Part Four : Howard Roark, Ch. 14
(See above.)
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