I read Anthem by Ayn Rand today
And this is what I read:
"At first, man was enslaved by the gods. But he broke their chains.
Then he was enslaved by the kings. But he broke their chains.
He was enslaved by his birth, by his kin, by his race. But he broke their chains.
He declared to all his brothers that a man has rights with neither god nor king nor other men can take away from him, no matter what their number, for his is the right of man, and there is no right on earth above this right. And he stood on the threshold of the freedom for which the blood of the centuries behind him had been spilled.
But then he gave up all he had won, and fell lower than his savage beginning.
What brought it to pass? What disaster took their reason away from men? What whip lashed them to their knees in shame and submission? The worship of the word "We.""
Literary Ecstacy, thou art mine.
Alex
"At first, man was enslaved by the gods. But he broke their chains.
Then he was enslaved by the kings. But he broke their chains.
He was enslaved by his birth, by his kin, by his race. But he broke their chains.
He declared to all his brothers that a man has rights with neither god nor king nor other men can take away from him, no matter what their number, for his is the right of man, and there is no right on earth above this right. And he stood on the threshold of the freedom for which the blood of the centuries behind him had been spilled.
But then he gave up all he had won, and fell lower than his savage beginning.
What brought it to pass? What disaster took their reason away from men? What whip lashed them to their knees in shame and submission? The worship of the word "We.""
Literary Ecstacy, thou art mine.
Alex