04-15-2009, 01:40 AM
"Did you want to see it used by whinning rotters who never rouse themselves to any effort, who do not possess the ability of a filing clerk, but demand the income of a company president, who drift from failure to failure and expect you to pay their bills, who hold their wishing as an equivalent of your work and their need as a higher claim to reward than your effort, who demand that you serve them, who demand that it be the aim of your life to serve them, who demand that your strength be the voiceless, rightless, unpaid, unrewarded slave of their impotence, who claim that you are born to serfdom by reason of your genius, while they are born to rule by the grace of incompetance, that yours is only to give, but theirs is only to take, that yours is to produce, but theirs is to consume, that your are not to be paid, neither in matter nor in spirit, neither by wealth nor by recognition nor by respect nor by gratitude-so that they would ride on your rail and sneer at you and curse you, since they owe you nothing, not even the effort of taking off their hats which you paid for? Would this be what you wanted? Would you feel proud of it?"
Francisco d'Anconia, asking Hank Rearden why he produced his special metal.
"What I described last, is any man who proclaims his right to a single penny of another man's effort."
Franciso d'Anconia's reply after Hank Rearden declared he would blast the rail first before ever letting the rotters use it.
"If the money I'm paid for my time, effort, and intelligence isn't mine, how can it belong to someone who hasn't traded anything for it?"
A question that occured to me after a long night of hard work at Something's Brewing.
"People say I'm bad because I'm rationally selfish, yet the so called "selfless" people are always the ones intefering in other people's lives, where as the rationally selfish people like me are content to mind our own business. Tell me then, who is causing the most harm?"
Me
"Necessity is the plea of every infringement of human freedom. It is the argument of tyrants, it is the creed of slaves."
~William Pitt, 1783
Francisco d'Anconia, asking Hank Rearden why he produced his special metal.
"What I described last, is any man who proclaims his right to a single penny of another man's effort."
Franciso d'Anconia's reply after Hank Rearden declared he would blast the rail first before ever letting the rotters use it.
"If the money I'm paid for my time, effort, and intelligence isn't mine, how can it belong to someone who hasn't traded anything for it?"
A question that occured to me after a long night of hard work at Something's Brewing.
"People say I'm bad because I'm rationally selfish, yet the so called "selfless" people are always the ones intefering in other people's lives, where as the rationally selfish people like me are content to mind our own business. Tell me then, who is causing the most harm?"
Me
"Necessity is the plea of every infringement of human freedom. It is the argument of tyrants, it is the creed of slaves."
~William Pitt, 1783