Jim's Favorite Famous Quote, Quip, Axiom, and Maxim Repository
Ayn Rand
Ayn Rand.
| Born | Alissa Rosenbaum February 2, 1905 St. Petersburg, Russia |
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| Died | March 6, 1982 New York, New York |
Writer and philosopher best known for Anthem, The Fountainhead, and Atlas Shrugged. Her philosophy, objectivism, celebrated the individual over the collective and held that the greater good was served when everyone acted in his own self-interest.
The repository contains two quotes from Ayn Rand.
Every man is free to rise as far as he’s able or willing, but the degree to which he thinks determines the degree to which he’ll rise.
In any compromise between good and evil, it is only evil that can profit.
