- Ayn Rand (Wikipedia)
Alice O’Connor (born Alisa Zinovyevna Rosenbaum; February 2 [O.S. January 20], 1905 – March 6, 1982), better known by her pen name Ayn Rand (/aɪn/), was a Russian-born American writer and philosopher. She is known for her fiction and for developing a philosophical system she named Objectivism. Born and educated in Russia, she moved to the United States in 1926. After two early novels that were initially unsuccessful and two Broadway plays, she achieved fame with her 1943 novel, The Fountainhead. In 1957, Rand published her best-known work, the novel Atlas Shrugged. Afterward, until her death in 1982, she turned to non-fiction to promote her philosophy, publishing her own periodicals and releasing several collections of essays.
Even if smog were a risk to human life, we must remember that life in nature, without technology, is wholesale death
Ayn Rand, The Objectivist (February 1971)- Rand considered Immanuel Kant her philosophical opposite and “the most evil man in mankind’s history”; she believed his epistemology undermined reason and his ethics opposed self-interest.
The question isn’t who is going to let me; it’s who is going to stop me.
Ayn RandThe skyline of New York is a monument of a splendor that no pyramids or palaces will ever equal or approach.
Ayn Rand The Virtue of Selfishness (1964)