Ayn Rand — "The only way to fight evil is to be good."
The only way to fight evil is to be good.
The only way to fight evil is to be good.
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"Collectivism is the tribal premise of primordial savages."
"The man who is unwilling to accept responsibility for his own life has no right to demand that others take responsibility for him."
"The greatest good for the greatest number is a contemptible doctrine."
"Every dictator is a mystic, and every mystic is a potential dictator."
"The hardest thing to explain is the obvious."
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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