Cowardice is so ignoble an state that men struggle to overcome it, in the face of real dangers. The appeaser chooses a state of cowardice where no danger exists. To live in fear is so unworthy a condition that men have died on barricades, defying the tyranny of the mighty. The appeaser chooses to live in chronic fear of the impotent. Men have died in torture chambers, on the stake, in concentration camps, in front of firing squads, rather than renounce their convictions. The appeaser recounces his under the pressure of a frown on any vacant face. Men have refused to sell their souls in exchange for fame, fortunes, power, even their lives. The appeaser does not sell his soul; he gives it away for free, getting nothing in return.
– Ayn Rand, ”The Age of Envy”, Return of the Primitive: The Anti-Industrial Revolution, sidorna 135-136