The independent man kills them—because they don’t exist within him and that’s the only form of existence they know. Notice the malignant kind of resentment against any idea that propounds independence. Notice the malice toward an independent man.

— Ayn Rand Howard Roark describing second-hand men in The Fountainhead (1996)

More quotes by Ayn Rand

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The Virtue of Selfishness (1964)

Anthem (1938)

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