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Ayn Rand

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Reason is not automatic. Those who deny it cannot be conquered by it. Do not count on them. Leave them alone.


— Ayn Rand


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Civilization is the progress toward a society of privacy. The savage's whole existence is public, ruled by the laws of his tribe. Civilization is the process of setting man free from men.


— Ayn Rand


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The ladder of success is best climbed by stepping on the rungs of opportunity.


— Ayn Rand


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To say "I love you" one must first be able to say the "I."


— Ayn Rand


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Only the man who does not need it, is fit to inherit wealth, the man who would make his fortune no matter where he started.


— Ayn Rand


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Rights are not a matter of numbers - and there can be no such thing, in law or in morality, as actions forbidden to an individual, but permitted to a mob.


— Ayn Rand


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Money is the barometer of a society's virtue.


— Ayn Rand


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Money demands that you sell, not your weakness to men's stupidity, but your talent to their reason.


— Ayn Rand


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Individual rights are the means of subordinating society to moral law.


— Ayn Rand


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A desire presupposes the possibility of action to achieve it; action presupposes a goal which is worth achieving.


— Ayn Rand


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In 1941 Paramount Pictures produced a movie version of the play. The novel centers on an uncompromising young architect named Howard Roark and his struggle against what Rand described as "second-handers"—those who attempt to live through others placing others above self. Afterward Ayn Rand turned to nonfiction to promote her philosophy publishing her own magazines and releasing several collections of essays until her death in 1982.

Ayn Rand (pron. In politics Ayn Rand condemned the initiation of force as immoral and opposed collectivism and statism as well as anarchism instead supporting a minarchist limited government and laissez-faire capitalism which Ayn Rand believed was the only social system that protected individual rights.

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