Ayn Rand

Ayn Rand was a Russian-American writer and philosopher known for developing the philosophical system of Objectivism and for her novels such as 'Atlas Shrugged' and 'The Fountainhead'.

"Money is the barometer of a society's virtue."
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"If the rest of them can survive only by destroying us, then why should we wish them to survive? . . . Nothing can make it moral to destroy the best. One can't be punished for being good. One can't be penalized for ability."
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"What you think is an illusion created by your glands your emotions and in the last analysis by the content of your stomach. That gray matter you're so proud of is like a mirror in an amusement park which transmits to you nothing but distorted signals from reality forever beyond your grasp."
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"We are on strike, we, the men of the mind.We are on strike against self-immolation. We are on strike against the creed of unearned rewards and unrewarded duties. We are on strike against the dogma that the pursuit of one's happiness is evil. We are on strike against the doctrine that life is guilt."
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"God forgives those who invent what they need."
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"Have you ever felt the longing for someone you could admire? For something, not to look down at, but up to?"
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