Ruchi Sharma

“Independence is the recognition of the fact that yours is the responsibility of judgment and nothing can help you escape it—that no substitute can do your thinking—that the vilest form of self-abasement and self-destruction is the subordination of your mind to the mind of another, the acceptance of an authority over your brain, the acceptance of his assertions as facts, his say-so as truth, his edicts as middle-man between your consciousness and your existence.”
― Ayn Rand, Atlas Shrugged

“It does take an exceptional mind and a still more exceptional integrity to remain untouched by the brain-destroying influences of the world doctrines, the accumulated evil of centuries-- to remain _human_, since the human is the rational”
― Ayn Rand, Atlas Shrugged

“This, in every hour and every issue, is your basic moral choice: thinking or non-thinking, existence or non-existence, A or non-A, entity or zero.”
― Ayn Rand, Atlas Shrugged

“Your uncompromising attitude makes people feel pathetic. Your very existence reminds them just how much they’ve sold out, and the more you’re acclaimed, the punier they themselves appear. When it’s like that, the only way they can fight back is by dragging you down. The bullshit gives them back a little bit of dignity – at least that’s what they imagine.”
― David Lagercrantz, The Girl in the Spider's Web