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If
a life can have a 'theme song' - and I believe that every worthwhile
one has - mine is [best] expressed in one word: Individualism. |
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Whatever
their future, at the dawn of their lives, men seek a noble vision
of man's nature and of life's potential. |
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My
philosophy, in essence, is the concept of man as a heroic being,
with his own happiness as the moral purpose of his life, with
productive achievement as his noblest activity, and reason as
his only absolute. |
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Every
man has a right to exist for himself, and not to sacrifice himself
for others. |
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America
is the land of the uncommon man, the land where man is free
to develop his genius…and to get its just rewards."
Upon arriving in New York in the early hours, February 10, 1926,
Ayn Rand described her excitement, "And seeing the first
lighted skyscrapers … it was snowing, very faintly, and
I think I began to cry because I remember the snowflakes and
the tears sort of together… |
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Throughout
the centuries there were men who took first steps down new roads
armed with nothing but their own Vision. |
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The
man who lets a leader prescribe his course is a wreck being
towed to the scrap heap. |
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Why
do they always teach us that it's easy and evil to do what we
want and that we need discipline to restrain ourselves? It's
the hardest thing in the world--to do what we want. And it takes
the greatest kind of courage. I mean, what we really want. |
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The
ladder of success is best climbed by stepping on the rungs of
opportunity. |
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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. |
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Upper
classes are a nation's past; the middle class is its future. |
