In Ayn Rand’s novel, The Fountainhead, the character Howard Roark embodies the virtue of egoism. In the climactic courtroom speech he says:
“Throughout the centuries there were men who took first steps down new roads armed with nothing but their own vision. Their goals differed, but they all had this in common: that the step was first, the road new, the vision unborrowed, and the response they received—hatred.”
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