We the Living
I was searching for a pdf of We the Living, because of the great quote in the novel wherein a proletariat worker says something to the effect that '...we were promised that they would get that boot off our necks, but instead it turned out to be a bigger boot".
Couldn't find a pdf, but found this quote from the book: (On Wayback):
“Can you sacrifice a few? When those few are the best? Deny the best its right to the top--and you have no best left. What are your masses but millions of dull, shriveled, stagnant souls that have no thoughts of their own, no dreams of their own, no will of their own, who eat and sleep and chew helplessly the words others put into their brains? And for those you would sacrifice the few who know life, who are life? I loathe your ideals because I know no worse injustice than the giving of the undeserved. Because men are not equal in ability and one can't trust them as if they were.”
Couldn't find a pdf, but found this quote from the book: (On Wayback):
“Can you sacrifice a few? When those few are the best? Deny the best its right to the top--and you have no best left. What are your masses but millions of dull, shriveled, stagnant souls that have no thoughts of their own, no dreams of their own, no will of their own, who eat and sleep and chew helplessly the words others put into their brains? And for those you would sacrifice the few who know life, who are life? I loathe your ideals because I know no worse injustice than the giving of the undeserved. Because men are not equal in ability and one can't trust them as if they were.”
About 22:23 or 23 minutes in, there is a great speech in the 'Student Cooperative'. Quotes like "Science is a weapon of the class struggle" and "We've outgrown the bourgeois egoism of personal careers".
I thought the people who would get the most out of this movie, are the budding Communists! (If any are watching.)
https://ok.ru/video/1546292366002
But I can see where Il Duce would have it destroyed. Many Bolshevik speeches sounded like his own. Or Hitler's.
But what's interesting, is that in Italy, after a few months, the movie was banned and ordered destroyed, by the FASCIST Mussolini! It was the top grossing film in Italy in 1942, and appeared at the Venice Film Festival.
And this is from the website https://wethelivingmovie.com/
The fascists banned the movie. But Trump, they say, is a fascist! What's going on here?
This page has a downloadable pdf that is text keyword searchable.
https://archive.org/download/ayn-rand...
(Note, there are several other pages at http://archive.com that do not have the complete novel.)
Love the quote you posted.;^)
https://www.bookey.app/quote-book/we-the-living#Quotes