Ayn Rand and the World She Made Quotes

“The Sanction of the Victims,”
― Anne C. Heller, Ayn Rand and the World She Made

“The Ethics of Emergencies,” for example, she warns against defining national emergencies too broadly or, worse, making them permanent, so that everyone is expected to sacrifice his liberties all the time. In “Man’s Rights,”
― Anne C. Heller, Ayn Rand and the World She Made

“She defined it, lovingly, as the only economic system in history to be rooted in and inextricable from individual rights: the freedom to choose an occupation, to earn and spend money in a free market of consumer goods, and to own the fruits of one’s own creativity and labor in the form of private property. Capitalism set the individual, especially the creative individual, free to invent, produce, and thrive. When reflecting on the novel’s theme in a letter to her friend John Chamberlain, she put it more aggressively. “Those who are anti-business are anti-life,” she wrote.”
― Anne C. Heller, Ayn Rand and the World She Made

“Ensorcelled”
― Anne C. Heller, Ayn Rand and the World She Made

“continues: “Whenever destroyers appear among men, they start by destroying money, for money is men’s protection and the base of a moral existence. Destroyers seize gold and leave to its owners a counterfeit pile of paper. This kills all objective standards and delivers men into the arbitrary power of an arbitrary setter of values. Gold was an objective value, an equivalent of wealth produced. Paper is a mortgage on wealth that does not exist, backed by a gun aimed at those who are expected to produce it. Paper is a check drawn by legal looters upon an account which is not theirs: upon the virtue of the victims.”
― Anne C. Heller, Ayn Rand and the World She Made

“Aristotelian syllogistic logic,”
― Anne C. Heller, Ayn Rand and the World She Made