Ayn Rand. We live (№ 323494)

- I loathe your ideals.
Why?
Mainly for one reason - the main and eternal, no matter how much your party promises to accomplish, no matter what Paradise it plans to give to mankind. Whatever your other claims, there is one thing which you cannot avoid, one that turns your Paradise into the most unspeakable hell: your claim that man must live for the state.
- For what else should he live?
- You don't know? - her voice trembled suddenly in a passionate plea, which she was unable to hide. Do you know that the best of us is something to which no one outside hand should dare touch? Something sacred because, and only because you can say, "This is mine". You don't know that people live only for themselves, at least the best of them, those who deserve it? You don't know that we have something that should not touch any state, no team, no millions?
"No," he replied.
- Comrade Taganov, how much you still have to learn!