In that transfusion of blood which drains the good to feed the evil, the compromiser is the transmitting rubber tube. For the New Intellectual, page 173. But a feeling is not a standard of anything. Letters of Ayn Rand, page 505. The motive and purpose of my writing is the projection of an ideal man.
Independence is the only guage of human virtue and value.
There is no substitute for personal dignity. There is no standard of personal dignity except independence. For the New Intellectual, pages 81-82. He is merely a perfect human being. Letter to W. M. Curtiss, Letters of Ayn Rand, pages 236-237.