Ayn Rand Quotes
I need no warrant for being, and no word of sanction upon my being. I am the warrant and the sanction.
Although a heroine of modern conservatives, Rand was hostile to religion. Where most conservatives would refer to “God-given rights”, Ayn Rand, argued that a human’s very existance was the warrant and sanction of his rights.
Ayn Rand, 1905-1982, Writer & Philosopher, Anthem, 1937
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Chaucer has Criseyde say this. It is the statement that would gladden the heart of any feminist. This was one of Mary McCarthy’s favorite quotations.
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.
