67 Quotes About Ayn-rand

(LuAnn) Whatever. That'll teach me not to build my life around a man whose favorite book is Atlas Shrugged. Listen, kid." She waggles her finger, as if scolding me. "Nothing good comes from Ayn RAnd. Trust me on this.

Atlas Shrugged and The Fountainhead, doubtless two of the most exquisitely adolescent of fictions.

I've wanted to want it. I should think it would be exciting to become a dissolute woman.

Who is John Galt? Bitcoin is John Galt.

What separates Rand from Marx is that the latter saw the true flourishing of individual creativity as best accomplished through collaboration and association with others in a collective drive to abolish the barriers of scarcity and material necessity beyond which, Marx held, the true realm of individual freedom could begin.

Is it an inferiority complex or a superiority one, Henry? Do you believe that nobody can want to see you just for your own sake, or do you believe that nobody can get along without your help?

It is surely gratuitous to point out that the author suffered from an edifice complex (writing of Ayn Rand)

The battle of philosophers is a battle for man's mind. If you do not understand their theories, you are vulnerable to the worst among them.

I hope you don’t have friends who recommend Ayn Rand to you. The fiction of Ayn Rand is as low as you can get re fiction. I hope you picked it up off the floor of the subway and threw it in the nearest garbage pail. She makes Mickey Spillane look like Dostoevsky.