The Devil Of America Foundation

Sanction of the Victim "The "sanction of the victim" is the willingness of the good to suffer at the hands of the evil, to accept the role of sacrificial victim for the "sin" of creating values." - Ayn Rand "Then I saw what was wrong with the world, I saw what destroyed men and nations, and where the battle for life had to be fought . I saw that the enemy was an inverted morality - and that my sanction was its only power . I saw that evil was impotent - that evil was the irrational, the blind, the anti-real - and that the only weapon of its triumph was the willingness of the good to serve it. Just as the parasites around me were proclaiming their helpless dependence on my mind and were expecting me voluntarily to accept a slavery they had no power to enforce, just as they were counting on my self-immolation to provide them with the means of their plan - so throughout the world and throughout men's history, in every version and form, from th