“I've wanted to want it. I should think it would be exciting to become a dissolute woman.” — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
“My Stephen King for his Ayn Rand. My Terry Goodkind for his T.S. Elliot. Not a bang but a whimper.” — Shannon Celebi Copy Share Image
“Live your life somewhere in between Ayn Rand and Mother Theresa. It's just as important to better yourself as it is to… — Gregor Collins Copy Share Image
“You want to know what's wrong with the world?" Dad paused. "It's this alienation that permeates every aspect of humanity.” — Mark David Henderson Copy Share Image
“To sum it all up, the [Ayn] Rand belief system looks like this: 1. Facts are facts: things can be absolutely right… — Matt Taibbi Copy Share Image
“But, in fact, a person's sexual choice is the result and sum of their fundamental convictions. Tell me what a person finds… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
“Kelley also marked 1965 as a turning point for another profound reason. That year, he discovered the work of author Ayn Rand.… — Laurence Galian Copy Share Image
“Here’s a free tip,” his father says: “The feds aren’t terribly impressed by infantile egoism. In fact, if Objectivism were at the… — Cory Doctorow Copy Share Image
“This is said to civilized men who are to venture into countries where sacred cows are fed, while children are left to… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
“At least two important conservative thinkers, Ayn Rand and Leo Strauss, were unbelievers or nonbelievers and in any case contemptuous of Christianity.… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
“Observe the nature of today’s alleged peace movements. Professing love and concern for the survival of mankind, they keep screaming that the… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
“In the history of philosophy, the term “rationalism” has two distinct meanings. In one sense, it signifies an unbreached commitment to reasoned… — Andrew Bernstein Copy Share Image
“In his writings, particularly Life Force: The Creative Process in Man and in Nature (2004), Kelley expressed admiration for Ayn Rand and… — Laurence Galian Copy Share Image
“The dining hall in our section of campus was like something out of an Ayn Rand novel: big, utilitarian, and impersonal.” — Kirstie Collins Brote Copy Share Image
“A sin without volition is a slap at morality and an insolent contradiction in terms: that which is outside the possibility of… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
“Saint Petersburg in revolt gave us Vladimir Nabokov, Isaiah Berlin, and Ayn Rand. The first was a novelist, the second a philosopher.… — Corey Robin Copy Share Image
“(LuAnn) Whatever. That'll teach me not to build my life around a man whose favorite book is Atlas Shrugged . Listen, kid."… — Abby McDonald Copy Share Image
“We all perform balancing acts between self and family, individual and community, private desire and group expectation. Gay people in particular must… — Christopher Bram Copy Share Image
“I hope you don’t have friends who recommend Ayn Rand to you. The fiction of Ayn Rand is as low as you… — Flannery O'Connor Copy Share Image
“There are two novels that can change a bookish fourteen-year old’s life: The Lord of the Rings and Atlas Shrugged . One… — John Rogers Copy Share Image
“Yet, as Ayn Rand’s philosophy entered his world, a turning point followed—a moment of revelation that shifted both his thinking and allegiance.… — Laurence Galian Copy Share Image
“The whole idea of "leaners" and "lifters" is the central teaching of the right wing ideologue, Ayn Rand, who penned books like… — Anne Manne Copy Share Image
![“To sum it all up, the [Ayn] Rand belief system looks like this: 1. Facts are facts: things can be absolutely right or absolutely wrong, as determined by reason. 2. According to my reasoning, I am absolutely right. 3. Charity is immoral. 4. Pay for your own fucking schools.” quote by Matt Taibbi](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/454/matt-taibbi-2257_ayn-rand_to-sum-it-all-up-the-ayn-rand-belief-sys_734389.jpg)
