Ayn Rand was an author, philosopher, and screenwriter.  Her philosophy was Objectivism-- she favored individualism, laissez-faire capitalism, and constitutional protection of the right to life, liberty, and property. She opposed all forms of collectivism and statism, including fascism, communism, and the welfare state.  Here are some of her assorted thoughts:

• From the smallest necessity to the highest religious abstraction, from the wheel to the skyscraper, everything we are and everything we have comes from one attribute of man - the function of his reasoning mind
• Only the man who does not need it, is fit to inherit wealth, the man who would make his fortune no matter where he started
• I swear, by my life and my love of it, that I will never live for the sake of another man, nor ask another man to live for mine
• Every man builds his world in his own image. He has the power to choose, but no power to escape the necessity of choice
• Man's unique reward, however, is that while animals survive by adjusting themselves to their background, man survives by adjusting his background to himself
• I don't build in order to have clients. I have clients in order to build
• The hardest thing to explain is the glaringly evident which everybody had decided not to see

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