“Nobody out here was going to find an alternative here to Earth’s tiresome clash of selfish individualisms and stifling collectivisms.”

— Gregory Benford , book The Sunborn

The Sunborn (2005), Part II, Chapter 5, “A Day at the Beach” (p. 114)

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Science fiction author and astrophysicist 1941

L. Neil Smith (1946) American writer

"Back to the Trees!"

“I killed nobody that didn't deserve killing. In all of these here killings there was no alternative. You couldn't call them cold-blooded killings…. It was either my life or theirs.”

Mickey Cohen

To Mike Wallace in an ABC-TV-interview in Los Angeles (May 18, 1957). Quoted in LA Times http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/thedailymirror/2007/05/cohen_talks.html (May 19, 1957).

“Here is a test to find whether your mission on earth is finished: If you're alive, it isn't.”

Richard Bach (1936) American spiritual writer

Illusions : The Adventures of a Reluctant Messiah (1977)
Variant: This is a test to see if your mission in this life is complete, if you are alive, it isn't.
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“Nobody wants to be here and nobody wants to leave.”

Cormac McCarthy book The Road

Source: The Road

“But the reason I got involved in public service, by and large, if I had to credit one thinker, one person, it would be Ayn Rand. And the fight we are in here, make no mistake about it, is a fight of individualism versus collectivism.”

Paul Ryan (1970) American politician

Speech at a 2005 Atlas Society event ( video at Atlas Society blog http://www.atlassociety.org/ele/blog/2012/04/30/paul-ryan-and-ayn-rands-ideas-hot-seat-again)