I grew up reading Ayn Rand and it taught me quite a bit about who I am and what my value systems… — Paul Ryan Copy Share Image
I think Republicans need to have their staffers reading less Ayn Rand and having them read Dr. Viktor Frankl's Man's Search For… — Rob Zerban Copy Share Image
Before I met Ayn Rand, I was a logical positivist, and accordingly, I didn't believe in absolutes, moral or otherwise. If I… — Alan Greenspan Copy Share Image
The reason I got involved in public service, by and large, if I had to credit one thinker, one person, it would… — Paul Ryan Copy Share Image
“What I was seeing here is a perennial issue for Ayn Rand followers—the need to finesse aspects of her teachings that make… — Gary Weiss Copy Share Image
Remember, Alan Greenspan was a member of Ayn Rand's collePeoples will be as before, the sheep sent to the slaughterhouses or to… — Peter Fonda Copy Share Image
Some major writers have a huge impact, like Ayn Rand, who to my mind is a lousy fiction writer because her writing… — Theodore Sturgeon Copy Share Image
There's an oft-used shorthand for the technologist's view of the world. It is assumed that libertarianism dominates Silicon Valley, and that isn't… — Franklin Foer Copy Share Image
“Vienna School merges with the thought of Ayn Rand. She believed that competition was the meaning of life itself; Hitler said much… — Timothy Snyder Copy Share Image
... there is an irrational, cultish tendency in many intellectual movements, and Objectivism, alas, is no exception. Ayn Rand's personal obsession with… — Nathaniel Branden Copy Share Image
And when you look at the twentieth-century experiment with collectivism-that Ayn Rand, more than anybody else, did such a good job of… — Paul Ryan Copy Share Image
The idea for Anthem the play began over twenty years ago. I was assisting in the production of another Ayn Rand work,… — Jeff Britting Copy Share Image
I think I view the system the same way that Ayn Rand views the system - that it really oppresses those that… — Gary Johnson Copy Share Image
“One of the methods used by statists to destroy capitalism consists in establishing controls that tie a given industry hand and foot,… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
I would say that my position is not too far from that of Ayn Rand's; that I would like to see government… — Robert A. Heinlein Copy Share Image
Ayn Rand called her novella Anthem a "hymn to man's ego." My approach to Anthem the play was to provide the story… — Jeff Britting Copy Share Image
I think for a lot of people, it's just where their saturation point was. Once you get into the [Donald] Trump stuff… — David Cross Copy Share Image
“Every book was a revelation to their suggestible young minds. They both sulked through their work-study jobs after Marx told them they… — Kathy Cooperman Copy Share Image
I've always been influenced by the human form. I'm a big fan of that Shakespeare quote. I tend to leave out the… — Zack Snyder Copy Share Image
“Paull has his own style, which is folksy, not canned. Religion? He's got one. His prophet's Ayn Rand. By Rand's eerie theories… — Calvin Trillin Copy Share Image
If the 2020 election comes down to the courts, Joe Biden is going to lose. Full stop. As I pointed out before,… — Jason Johnson Copy Share Image
“Politics takes place in the real world with real people, not in the dusty pages of an Ayn Rand novel.” — Laura Ingraham Copy Share Image
Ayn Rand more than anyone else did a fantastic job of explaining the morality of capitalism, the morality of individualism. — Paul Ryan Copy Share Image
“We can ignore reality, but we cannot ignore the consequences of ignoring reality.” -Ayn Rand” — Michael Fleming 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
“It is not in a woman's best interest to rule man. I don't believe any good women would want that position." -… — Brooke Bida Copy Share Image
I tend to really be partial to Ayn Rand, and to The Fountainhead and Atlas Shrugged. — Clarence Thomas Copy Share Image
If Ayn Rand were an up-and-coming author today, she wouldn't write about steel or railroads, it would be Net Neutrality. — Mark Cuban Copy Share Image
When I was younger, I was drawn to Ayn Rand books and other works of fiction celebrating individualism. — David Harsanyi Copy Share Image
“For the big donors, Ryan was a superstar, a square-jawed, blue-eyed, earnest young Ayn Rand disciple described as “wonky” so often it… — Jane Mayer Copy Share Image
“To irrational principles, one cannot be loyal. Ideas that are not derived from reality cannot be consistently practiced in reality. --as quoted… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
Of all Americans who have appeared on the nation's postage stamps, Ayn Rand is probably the only one to have thought that… — Thomas Mallon 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
[If Republicans] got to put their kids into public school. They got to take public health. They would become libertarian faster than… — Greg Gutfeld Copy Share Image
“An election year in the U.S., as if you needed to be reminded, the vituperative tunes of the Ayn Rand Marching Band… — Karen Joy Fowler Copy Share Image
If you trade in paper, the notion of many who trade gold - the Ayn Randers - if the financial world comes… — Rick Santelli Copy Share Image
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