There is no such thing as duty. If you know that a thing is right, you want to do it. If you don't want to do it—it isn't right. If it's right and you don't want to do it—you don't know what right is and you're not a man.

• Source: We The Living Part One Chapter 6

"Because, you see, God--whatever anyone chooses to call God--is one's highest conception to the highest possible. And whoever places his highest conception above his own possibility thinks very little of himself and his own life. It's a rare gift, you know, to feel reverence for your own life and to want the best, the greatest, the highest possible, here, now, for your very own. To imagine a heaven and then not to dream of it, but to demand it."

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We the living was one of Ayn Rands First Novels. This is not a novel about Soviet Russia, it is a novel about living on earth.