Ayn Rand — "The man who is wrong and knows it, is not as dangerous as the man who is wrong a…"
The man who is wrong and knows it, is not as dangerous as the man who is wrong and believes he is right.
The man who is wrong and knows it, is not as dangerous as the man who is wrong and believes he is right.
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"The only thing that can save the world is the independent thinking of all individuals."
"The purpose of man's life is his own happiness."
"I am not primarily an advocate of capitalism, but of egoism; and I am not primarily an advocate of egoism, but of reason. If one recognizes the supremacy of reason and applies it consistently, all the…"
"A government that is big enough to give you everything you want is also big enough to take away everything you have."
"The man who damns money has obtained it dishonorably; the man who respects it has earned it."
Russian-American novelist (The Fountainhead, 1943; Atlas Shrugged, 1957) and Objectivist philosopher whose ethical egoism and capitalism-as-virtue shaped American libertarianism. Closely associated with Nathaniel Branden (her early Objectivist-movement collaborator and lover). For an intellectual contrast, see John Rawls, Harvard political philosopher (1921-2002) — Rawls's A Theory of Justice (1971) systematized exactly the egalitarian-redistributive liberalism Rand's Atlas Shrugged was structured to attack. Rand's 'sanction of the victim' and Rawls's 'veil of ignorance' are the two opposite founding intuitions of American political philosophy — selfish-flourishing-as-virtue vs fairness-from-original-position.
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