We can evade reality, but we cannot evade the consequences of evading reality - Ayn Rand

The second handers offer substitutes for competence such as love, charm, kindness - easy substitutes - and there is no substitute for creation.

Art is a selective re-creation of reality according to an artist's individual value-judgments.

When the common good of a society is regarded as something apart from and superior to the individual good of its members, it means that the good of some men takes precedence over the good of others, with those others consigned to the status of sacrificial animals.