Ayn Rand Quotes
… morality ends where the gun begins.
Ayn Rand, 1905-1982, Writer & Philosopher, Atlas Shrugged, 1957
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When the Mexican police and the army started to crack down on the drug cartels for killing each other over drug terrirory, the cartels struck back and started murdering police and soldiers and often civilians as well. At the time ex President Fox made this statement, the Mexican government admitted to 20,000 murders but many observers believed that the number was 50,000.
He works were banned and he was banished by both the North Vietnamese and the South Vietnamese during the Vietnam War where he tried to be a mediator and was present at the Paris Peace Talks. As late as 2007 he was still not allowed into Vietnam.
Ayn Rand was a Russian-American writer and philosopher. She is known for her two best-selling novels, The Fountainhead and Atlas Shrugged, and for developing a philosophical system she named Objectivism. Born and educated in Russia, she moved to the United States in 1926. She had a play produced on Broadway in 1935 and 1936. After two early novels that were initially unsuccessful, she achieved fame with her 1943 novel, The Fountainhead. In 1957, Rand published her best-known work, the novel Atlas Shrugged. Afterward, she turned to non-fiction to promote her philosophy, publishing her own periodicals and releasing several collections of essays until her death in 1982.
