Hank Rearden Quotes
Hank Rearden Quote of the day
...they want us to pretend that we see the world as they pretend they see it. They need some sort of sanction from us.
Joy is the goal of existence, and joy is not to be stumbled upon, but to be achieved, and the act of treason is to let its vision drown in the swamp of the moment’s torture.
He did not know that he was expected to attempt to buy his way into society and that they anticipated the pleasure of rejecting him. He had no time to notice their disappointment.
...there can be no justification for a society in which a man is expected to manufacture the weapons for his own murderers.
If, to him, love was a celebration of one’s self and of existence—then, to the self-haters and life-haters, the pursuit of destruction was the only form and equivalent of love.
The justice which would forgive miles of innocent errors of knowledge, would not forgive a single step taken in conscious evil.
There is no escape from justice, nothing can be unearned and unpaid for in the universe, neither in matter nor in spirit—and if the guilty do not pay, then the innocent have to pay it.
...there was no guilt in his face, no doubt, nothing but the calm of an inviolate self-confidence.
...he had never known fear because, against any disaster, he had held the omnipotent cure of being able to act.
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.
Throughout his life, whenever he became convinced that a course of action was right, the desire to follow it had come automatically.
You always play it open, don’t you?” he asked.“I’ve never noticed you doing otherwise.”“I thought I was the only one who could afford to.