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Definition
to take property or money that belongs to another
- This is plain expropriation.1.4 Part 1 Chapter 4 — The Immovable Movers (56% in)
- Oh hell, there's always enough suckers to expropriate in the world!2.6 Part 2 Chapter 6 — Miracle Metal (80% in)
- There it was: the punishment that required the victim's own virtue as the fuel to make it work-his invention of Rearden Metal being used as the cause of his expropriation-Dagny's honor and the depth of their feeling for each other being used as a tool of blackmail, a blackmail from which the depraved would be immune-and, in the People's States of Europe, millions of men being held in bondage by means of their desire to live, by means of their energy drained in forced labor, by means of...2.6 Part 2 Chapter 6 — Miracle Metal (84% in)
- I know that if we succeed, they will be only too eager to expropriate the motor.2.9 Part 2 Chapter 9 — The Face Without Pain or Fear or Guilt (58% in)
- "Through all the ages," he said, "the mind has been regarded as evil, and every form of insult: from heretic to materialist to exploiterevery form of iniquity: from exile to disfranchisement to expropriation-every form of torture: from sneers to rack to firing squadhave been brought down upon those who assumed the responsibility of looking at the world through the eyes of a living consciousness and performing the crucial act of a rational connection.3.1 Part 3 Chapter 1 — Atlantis (72% in)
- I saw them reaching into my soul, just as they reach into Mulligan's pocket, reaching to expropriate the value of my person, just as they reach to expropriate his wealth-I saw the impertinent malice of mediocrity boastfully holding up its own emptiness as an abyss to be filled by the bodies of its betters-I saw them seeking, just as they seek to feed on Mulligan's money, to feed on those hours when I wrote my music and on that which made me write it, seeking to gnaw their way to...3.1 Part 3 Chapter 1 — Atlantis (84% in)
- I saw them reaching into my soul, just as they reach into Mulligan's pocket, reaching to expropriate the value of my person, just as they reach to expropriate his wealth-I saw the impertinent malice of mediocrity boastfully holding up its own emptiness as an abyss to be filled by the bodies of its betters-I saw them seeking, just as they seek to feed on Mulligan's money, to feed on those hours when I wrote my music and on that which made me write it, seeking to gnaw their way to...3.1 Part 3 Chapter 1 — Atlantis (84% in)
- So we came to set aside one month a year to spend in this valley-to rest, to live in a rational world, to bring our real work out of hiding, to trade our achievements-here, where achievements meant payment, not expropriation.3.1 Part 3 Chapter 1 — Atlantis (92% in)
- She had thought that industrial production was a value not to be questioned by anyone; she had thought that these men's urge to expropriate the factories of others was their acknowledgment of the factories value.3.5 Part 3 Chapter 5 — Their Brothers' Keepers (73% in)
- A year ago, he thought, they would have shot him; two years ago, they would have confiscated his property; generations ago, men of their kind had been able to afford the luxury of murder and expropriation, the safety of pretending to themselves and their victims that material loot was their only objective.3.6 Part 3 Chapter 6 — The Concerto of Deliverance (57% in)
- Just as the mystic is a parasite in matter, who expropriates the wealth created by others-just as he is a parasite in spirit, who plunders the ideas created by others-so he falls below the level of a lunatic who creates his own distortion of reality, to the level of a parasite of lunacy who seeks a distortion created by others.3.7 Part 3 Chapter 7 — "This is John Galt Speaking" (65% in)
- You declare to your children that it is rational to loot, to torture, to enslave, to expropriate, to murder, but that they must resist the temptations of logic and stick to the discipline of remaining irrationalthat skyscrapers, factories, radios, airplanes were the products of faith and mystic intuition, while famines, concentration camps and firing squads are the products of a reasonable manner of existence-that the industrial revolution was the revolt of the men of faith against...3.7 Part 3 Chapter 7 — "This is John Galt Speaking" (79% in)
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