The small minority of men who are able to conceive of a new idea are the only men who discover truths. The rest are but the echoes of other men's thoughts.
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"The only good is the good of the individual."
"To say 'I love you' one must first be able to say the 'I.'"
"The greatest good for the greatest number is a contemptible doctrine."
"The smallest minority on earth is the individual. Those who deny individual rights cannot claim to be defenders of minorities."
"A creative man is motivated by the desire to achieve, not by the desire to beat others."
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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