Ayn Rand — "Anyone who is against capitalism is against man."
Anyone who is against capitalism is against man.
Anyone who is against capitalism is against man.
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"Achievement of your happiness is the only moral purpose of your life, and that happiness, not pain or mindless self-indulgence, is the proof of your moral integrity, since it is the proof and the resu…"
"Man's basic vice, the source of all his evils, is the act of evading reality."
"The worst evil is not the one you know, but the one you don't suspect."
"Love is an act of selfishness."
"The man who speaks to you of sacrifice, speaks of slaves and masters. And intends to be the master."
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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