Best Ayn Rand Quotes

[Ryan Carboni]

Ayn Rand was the most dangerous thing to ever come out of the Soviet
Union. If her ideas were to be adopted, this country would collapse
within less than five years.

Heinlein was better: "Morals — all correct moral laws — derive from
the instinct to survive. Moral behavior is survival behavior above the
individual level."

vs... whatever Rand meant by this:

"The army of a free country has a great responsibility: the right to
use force, but not as an instrument of compulsion and brute conquest —
as the armies of other countries have done in their histories — only
as an instrument of a free nation's self-defense, which means: the
defense of a man's individual rights. The principle of using force
only in retaliation against those who initiate its use, is the
principle of subordinating might to right. The highest integrity and
sense of honor are required for such a task. No other army in the
world has achieved it. You have. "