Jacob Zuma built a 2 million rand swimming pool, but no one in the family knows how to swim
The reason I got involved in public service, by and large, if I had to credit one thinker, one person, it would be Ayn Rand. The fight we are in here, make no mistake about it, is a fight of individualism versus collectivism.
The Lindsey Graham via foreign policy is going to beat Rand Paul's libertarian view of foreign policy. It will beat Barack Obama's view of foreign policy. It will beat Hillary Clinton's view of foreign policy.
I tend to really be partial to Ayn Rand, and to The Fountainhead and Atlas Shrugged.
Miss Rand now tells us that what we have thought was right is really wrong. The lesson should have read: One for one and none for all.
Generally speaking, Rand Paul is been more wrong than right. He has an isolationist view of the world that I don`t share.
Ayn Rand more than anyone else did a fantastic job of explaining the morality of capitalism, the morality of individualism.
Ludwig von Mises referred to Ayn Rand as 'the most courageous man in America. ' If that doesn't say it all about the economist's man-centric frame of reference, I don't know what does.
Treating only terminal cancer patients, the Rand (anti-cancer) vaccine produced objective improvement in 35% of 600 patients while another 30% demonstrated subjective improvement. FDA stopped the vaccine's use in a federal court hearing where neither the cancer patients nor their doctors were allowed to testify.
Rand al'Thor is a mule-headed, stone-willed fool of a. . . a. . . a man!
If you wish, you may call me Rand Sedai.
Realistically speaking, Ayn Rand should not have opposed the antidraft movement and supported the Vietnam War effort - in effect, she supported military conscription.
And when you look at the twentieth-century experiment with collectivism-that Ayn Rand, more than anybody else, did such a good job of articulating the pitfalls of statism and collectivism-you can't find another thinker or writer who did a better job of describing and laying out the moral case for capitalism than Ayn Rand.
Sleep well and wake, Rand al'Thor.
Ayn Rand called her novella Anthem a "hymn to man's ego. " My approach to Anthem the play was to provide the story a further dimension through music and sound. The work is now larger than a hymn. It's really "spoken opera. "
The fiction of Ayn Rand is as low as you can get re fiction. I hope you picked it up off the floor of the subway and threw it in the nearest garbage pail. She makes Mickey Spillane look like Dostoevsky.
