Or did you say it's the love of money that's the root of all evil? To love a thing is to know its nature. To love money is to known and love the fact that money is the creation of the best power within you, and your passkey to trade your effort for the effort of the best among men. It's the person who would sell his soul for a nickel, who is loudest in proclaiming his hatred of money - and he has good reason to hate it. The lovers of money are willing to work for it. They know they are able to deserve it. β¨ Ayn Rand (1963). For the New Intellectual: The Philosophy of Ayn Rand (50th Anniversary Edition), p.73, Penguin
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- There were things in my past which I have not liked. But all the things of which I was proud will remain. β¨ Ayn Rand (2011). Ayn Rand Novel Collection, p.765, Penguin
- The men who are not interested in philosophy need it most urgently; they are most helplessly in its power. β¨ Ayn Rand (1984). Philosophy: Who Needs It, p.14, Penguin
- America's abundance was created not by public sacrifices to the common good, but by the productive genius of free men who pursued their own personal interests and the making of their own private fort β¦ βΆ
- It is not fools that I seek to address. β¨ Nathaniel Branden, Ayn Rand (1999). My Years with Ayn Rand, Jossey-Bass
- If men want to oppose war, it is statism that they must oppose. So long as they hold the tribal notion that the individual is sacrificial fodder for the collective, that some men have the right to ru β¦ βΆ
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