Ayn Rand Quotes
If the truth shall kill them, let them die.
Rand, Ayn. The Fountainhead. Bobbs-Merrill, 1943.
Dr. Libby worked with Enrico Fermi to create the first nuclear chain reaction to prove the feasibility of a nuclear bomb. She was the only female on the team.
Lincoln was referring to the "house divided against itself" speech. His remarks were addressed to friends who were trying to dissuade him from delivering the address.
This quotation is noteworthy because he is one of the only Judeo-Christian theologians who hold that the ends justify the means. Even most politicians do not believe this.
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.
