Ayn Rand — "Since man has to be supported by his own effort, those who do not support themse…"
Since man has to be supported by his own effort, those who do not support themselves are living off the efforts of others.
Since man has to be supported by his own effort, those who do not support themselves are living off the efforts of others.
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"Every dictator is a mystic, and every mystic is a potential dictator."
"Man's mind is his basic means of survival."
"The man who refuses to think is a willing slave to those who do."
"Individualism is the only possible path to a sane, rational, moral world."
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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