Ayn Rand
Ayn Rand
Ayn Randwas a Russian-born American novelist, philosopher, playwright, and screenwriter. She is known for her two best-selling novels, The Fountainhead and Atlas Shrugged, and for developing a philosophical system she called Objectivism. Educated in Russia, she moved to the United States in 1926. She had a play produced on Broadway in 1935–1936. After two early novels that were initially unsuccessful in America, she achieved fame with her 1943 novel, The Fountainhead...
NationalityRussian
ProfessionNovelist
Date of Birth2 February 1905
CitySaint Petersburg, Russia
CountryRussian Federation
If capitalism had never existed, any honest humanitarian should have been struggling to invent it. But when you see men struggling to evade its existence, to misrepresent its nature, and to destroy its last remnants - you maybe sure that whatever their motives, love of man is not one of them.
Existence is Identity, Consciousness is Identification.
I refuse to accept as guilt the fact of my own existence.
A gun is not an argument.
In the temple of his spirit, each man is alone.
The entire history of science is a progression of exploded fallacies.
In order to fight any issue, it is necessary to fight for something, not merely against something.
in architecture, mediocrity is more glaringly obvious than in other lines - because there's a huge, physical object such as a building to demonstrate it.
Art is the indispensable medium for the communication of a moral ideal ...
I am an intransigent atheist, though not a militant one. This means that I am not fighting against religion - I am fighting for reason.
Censorship' is a term pertaining only to governmental action. No private action is censorship. No private individual or agency can silence a man or suppress a publication; only the government can do so. The freedom of speech of private individuals includes the right not to agree, not to listen and not to finance one's own antagonists.
The code of competence is the only system of morality that's on a gold standard.
One of the most destructive anti-concepts in the history of moral philosophy is the term 'duty.
A 'mixed economy' is a society in the process of committing suicide.