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"Nothing can make it moral to destroy the best. One can't be punished for being good. One can't be penalized for ability. If that is right, then we'd better start slaughtering one another, because there isn't any right at all in the world!"

— Rand, Ayn event 1957

From Atlas Shrugged

Context: Part One, Chapter IV, 'The Immovable Movers.' Dagny Taggart to Dan Conway, right after the National Alliance of Railroads rams through the 'Anti-dog-eat-dog Rule,' a regulation that hands Taggart Transcontinental a monopoly by outlawing Conway's more efficient, competing Phoenix-Durango line in the name of 'fair' competition.

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