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Ayn Rand - When a man declares: "There are no blacks...

When a man declares: "There are no blacks and whites [in morality]" he is making a psychological confession, and what he means is: "I am unwilling to be wholly good-and please don't regard me as wholly evil!" (Ayn Rand)

When a man declares: "There are no blacks and whites [in morality]" he is making a psychological confession, and what he means is: "I am unwilling to be wholly good-and please don't regard me as wholly evil!"

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