We have come to hold, in a kind of mawkish stupor, that greatness is to be gauged by self-sacrifice. Self-sacrifice, we drool, is the ultimate virtue. Let's stop and think for a moment. Is sacrifice a virtue? Can a man sacrifice his integrity?
 Ayn Rand, The Fountainhead (1943). copy citation

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Author Ayn Rand
Source The Fountainhead
Topic greatness integrity
Date 1943
Language English
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