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Showing posts with label ayn rand. Show all posts
Showing posts with label ayn rand. Show all posts

Monday, March 16, 2009

Damned if you do


"Damnation is the start of your morality (...) the name of this monstrous absurdity is Original Sin. (...) If man is evil by birth, he has no will, no power to change it, if he has no will, he can be neither good nor evil ; a robot is amoral. To hold, as man's sin, a fact not open to his choice is a mockery of morality. To hold man's nature as his sin is mockery of nature. To punish him for a crime he committed before he was born is a mockery of justice." (...) (Ayn RAND)

take that Mrs B. !






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Friday, December 19, 2008

Our Anthem

To start with, we want to honour this honorable yet fabulous place with our anthem (expressed by the late yet extraordinary Ayn Rand -our master of thought-) :


"Accept the fact that achievement of your happiness is the only moral purpose of your life, and that happiness (...) is the proof of your moral integrity, since it is the proof and the result of your loyalty to the achievement of your values. (...)
There is no more despicable coward than the man who deserted the battle for his joy, fearing to assert his right to existence, lacking the courage and the loyalty to life. Discard the protective rags of that vice which you call a virtue : humility -learn to value yourself, which means : to fight for your happiness- and when you learn that pride is the sum of all virtues, you will learn to live like a man."

(Atlas Shrugged)