Francisco Gutierrez
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“Once, men turned their thinking over to machines in the hope that this would set them free. But that only permitted other men with machines to enslave them.”
“What happened in the arena? That’s humanity undressed. The tributes. And you, too. How quickly civilization disappears. All your fine manners, education, family background, everything you pride yourself on, stripped away in the blink of an eye, revealing everything you actually are. A boy with a club who beats another boy to death. That’s mankind in its natural state.”
― The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes
― The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes
“It is not death that we wish to avoid, but life that we wish to live.”
― Atlas Shrugged
― Atlas Shrugged
“My happiness is not the means to any end. It is the end. It is its own goal. It is its own purpose.”
― Anthem
― Anthem
“It was the greatest sensation of existence: not to trust but to know.”
― Atlas Shrugged
― Atlas Shrugged
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