Ayn Rand
Ayn Rand
Ayn Randwas a Russian-born American novelist, philosopher, playwright, and screenwriter. She is known for her two best-selling novels, The Fountainhead and Atlas Shrugged, and for developing a philosophical system she called Objectivism. Educated in Russia, she moved to the United States in 1926. She had a play produced on Broadway in 1935–1936. After two early novels that were initially unsuccessful in America, she achieved fame with her 1943 novel, The Fountainhead...
NationalityRussian
ProfessionNovelist
Date of Birth2 February 1905
CitySaint Petersburg, Russia
CountryRussian Federation
Let me give you a tip on a clue to men's characters: the man who damns money has obtained it dishonorably; the man who respects it has earned it.
There are no contradictions. If you find one, check your premises.
Volumes can be and have been written about the issue of freedom versus dictatorship, but, in essence, it comes down to a single question: do you consider it moral to treat men as sacrificial animals and to rule them by physical force?
In this world, either you're virtuous or you enjoy yourself. Not both, lady, not both.
But I don't think of you. - Howard Roark
Let us destroy, but don't let us pretend that we are commiting an act of virtue.
A viler evil than to murder a man, is to sell him suicide as an act of virtue.
Pride is the recognition of the fact that you are your own highest value and, like all of man's values, it has to be earned.
Until and unless you discover that money is the root of all good, you ask for your own destruction. When money ceases to become the means by which men deal with one another, then men become the tools of other men. Blood, whips and guns--or dollars. Take your choice--there is no other.
Guilt is a rope that wears thin.
and he said her name to fill the space of five years.
Patience is always rewarded and romance is always round the corner!
Self respect is something that can't be killed. The worst thing is to kill a man's pretense at it.
Compromise now, because you'll have to later, anyway, only then you'll have gone through things you'll wish you hadn't.