Chase Moore

“If this is vise I want no virtue.

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I know what happiness is possible to me on earth. And my happiness needs no higher aim to vindicate it. My happiness is not the means to any end. It is the end. It is its own goal. It is its own purpose.

Neither am I the means to any end others may wish to accomplish. I am not a tool for their use. I am not a servant of their needs. I am not a bandage for their wounds. I am not a sacrifice on their altars.

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But what is freedom? Freedom from what? There is nothing to take a man’s freedom away from him, save other men. To be free, a man must be free of his brothers. That is freedom. That and nothing else.”
― Ayn Rand

“So you think that money is the root of all evil. Have you ever asked what is the root of all money?”
― Ayn Rand

“Wealth is the product of man's capacity to think.”
― Ayn Rand

“Damaged people are dangerous. They know they can survive.”
― Josephine Hart, Damage