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… — Ayn Rand
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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I shall choose friends among men, but neither slaves nor masters. And I shall choose only such as please me, and them I shall love and respect, but neither command nor obey. And we shall join our hands when we wish, or walk alone when we so desire.
I need no warrant for being, and no word of sanction upon my being. I am the warrant and the sanction.
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.
