Quote Of The Day

"The damnation of this earth as a realm where nothing is possible but pain, disaster and defeat, a realm inferior to another, 'higher', reality; the damnation of all values, enjoyment, achievement and success on earth as proof of depracity; the damnation of man's mind as a source of pride, and the damnation of reason as a 'limited', deceptive, unreliable, impotent faculty, incapable of perceiving the 'real' reality and the 'true' truth; the split of man in two, setting his consciousness (his soul) against his body, and his moral values against his own interest; the damnation of man's nature, body and self as evil; the commandment of self-sacrifice, renunciation, suffering, obedience, humility and faith, as the good; the damnation of life and the worship of death, with the promise of rewards beyond the grave - these are the necessary tenets of the Witch Doctor's view of existence, as they have been in every varient of Witch Doctor philosophy throughout the course of mankind's history."

— Ayn Rand (1905-1982), free-market capitalist, on how organized religion is like totalitarianism (which she refers to as the Attila philosophy), in For The New Intellectual (1961)