Ayn Rand, Atlas Shrugged

"A morality that holds need as a claim, holds emptiness -- non-existence -- as its standard of value; it rewards an absence, a defect: weakness, inability, incompetence, suffering, disease, disaster, the lack, the fault, the flaw -- the zero. "

[John Galt's speech to the Nation, Part III, Chapter VII, "This is John Galt Speaking"]