To love is to value. Only a rationally selfish man, a man of self-esteem, is capable of love—because he is the only man capable of holding firm, consistent, uncompromising, unbetrayed values.
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"The primary purpose of morality is to teach you how to live, not how to die."
"The average man is a conformist, meekly accepting the doctrines and dogmas of the reigning collective."
"Since man has to be supported by his own effort, those who do not support themselves are living off the efforts of others."
"There are no contradictions in reality. Contradictions exist only in the mind, in the mind of a man who makes a mistake."
"The purpose of production is to create wealth, not to support parasites."
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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