“When you see that trading is done, not by consent, but by compulsion – when you see that in order to produce, you need to obtain permission from men who produce nothing – when you see that money is flowing to those who deal, not in goods, but in favors – when you see that men get richer by graft and by pull than by work, and your laws don’t protect you against them, but protect them against you – when you see corruption being rewarded and honesty becoming a self-sacrifice – you may know that your society is doomed”

“I swear by my life, and my love of it, not to live my life for the sake of another man nor ask him to live his for the sake of mine.”

ATLAS SHRUGED – 1957

Ayn Rand – (1905-1982)