Pedro

“Listen to what is being preached today. Look at everyone around us. You've wondered why they suffer, why they seek happiness and never find it. If any man stopped and asked himself whether he's ever held a truly personal desire, he'd find the answer. He'd see that all his wishes, his efforts, his dreams, his ambitions are motivated by other men. He's not really struggling even for material wealth, but for the second-hander's delusion - prestige. A stamp of approval, not his own. He can find no joy in the struggle and no joy when he has succeeded. He can't say about a single thing: 'This is what I wanted because I wanted it, not because it made my neighbors gape at me'. Then he wonders why he's unhappy.”
― Ayn Rand, The Fountainhead

“Las únicas funciones apropiadas de un gobierno son: la policía, para protegerte de los criminales; el ejército, para protegerte de invasores extranjeros, y los tribunales, para proteger tu propiedad y tus contratos de las violaciones, incumplimientos o fraudes de los otros, y para dirimir las disputas apelando a reglas racionales y según la ley objetiva.”
― Ayn Rand, La Rebelión de Atlas

“La felicidad es un estado de alegría no contradictoria, una alegría sin pena ni culpa, una alegría que no choca con ninguno de tus valores y que no te lleva a tu propia destrucción; no es la alegría de escapar de tu mente, sino la de usar su poder total; no es la alegría de disimular la realidad, sino la de alcanzar valores reales; no es la alegría de un borracho, sino la de un productor.”
― Ayn Rand, La Rebelión de Atlas

“An abnormal reaction to an abnormal situation is normal behavior.”
― Victor Frankl, Man's Search For Ultimate Meaning