When men reduce their virtues to the approximate, then evil acquires the force of an absolute, when loyalty to an unyielding purpose is dropped by the virtuous, it's picked up by scoundrels—and you get the indecent spectacle of a cringing, bargaining, traitorous good and a self-righteously uncompromising evil.
 Ayn Rand, Atlas Shrugged (1957). copy citation

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Author Ayn Rand
Source Atlas Shrugged
Topic loyalty evil
Date 1957
Language English
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