"Atlas Shrugged": 12 Insightful Quotes From Part One

I love that line "odd, quavering belligerence as if he had found a new weapon." This describes well the college student who has just finished their first year of sociology classes and been taught that they can condemn every productive person on earth because they are inherently racist, sexist, transphobic, etc. It is not the attitude of the philosopher, but of the wounded child who has found a new foundation to make himself feel special and to condemn the world.