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
If the rest of them can survive only by destroying us, then why should we wish them to survive? . . . Nothing can make it moral to destroy the best. One can't be punished for being good. One can't be penalized for ability.
The cult of moral grayness is a revolt against moral values.
There can be no compromise on moral principles.
...only the pleasure which proceeds from a rational value judgement can be regarded as moral, pleasure, as such, is not a guide to action nor a standard of morality.
One must never fail to pronounce moral judgment.
Errors of knowledge are not breaches of morality; no proper moral code can demand infallibility or omniscience.
My morality, the morality of reason, is contained in a single axiom: existence exists - and in a single choice: to live.
A rational process is a moral process.
One of the most destructive anti-concepts in the history of moral philosophy is the term 'duty.
The code of competence is the only system of morality that's on a gold standard.
Art is the indispensable medium for the communication of a moral ideal ...
A code of values accepted by choice is a code of morality.
Learn to distinguish the difference between errors of knowledge and breaches of morality
The meaning ascribed in popular usage to the word 'selfishness' is not merely wrong: it represents a devastating intellectual 'package-deal,' which is responsible, more than any other single factor, for the arrested moral development of mankind.