"Whenever anyone accuses some person of being 'unfeeling', he means that that person is just. He means that that person has no causeless emotions and will not grant him a feeling which he does not deserve. He means that 'to feel' is to go against reason, against moral values, against reality. He means ...
Observe that You never hear that accusation in defense of innocence, but always in defense of guilt. You never hear is said by a good person about those who fail to do him justice. But you always hear is said by a rotter about those who treat him as a rotter, those who don't feel any sympathy for the evil he's committed or for the pain he suffers as a consequence.
That's true - that is what I do not feel. But those who feel it, feel nothing for any quality of human greatness, for any person or action that deserves admiration, approval, esteem. These are the things I feel."
Dagny Taggert in "Atlas Shrugged" (Ayn Rand)
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