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Was a "friendly witness" before the House Un-American Activities Committee, testifying on Communist influences in film.

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She called her philosophy of rational selfishness "Objectivism",

Her belief: Rational selfishness is a virtue; altruism (self-sacrifice), a vice.

"The skyline of New York is a monument of a splendour that no pyramids or palaces will ever equal or approach."

"Altruism declares that any action taken for the benefit of others is good, and any action taken for one's own benefit is evil. Thus the beneficiary of an action is the only criterion of moral value - and so long as that beneficiary is anybody than oneself, anything goes."

"Upper classes are a nation's past; the middle class is it's future."

"Productive work is the central purpose of a rational man's life, the central value that integrates and determines the hierarchy of all his other values. Reason is the source, the precondition of his productive work - pride is the result."

"To hold an unchanging youth is to reach at the end, the vision with which one started."

"I am not primarily an advocate of capitalism, but of egoism; I am not primarily an advocate of egoism, but of reason. If one recognices the supremacy of reason and applies it consistently, all the rest follows. This--the supremacy of reason--was, is and will be the primary concern of my work, and the essence of Objectivism." -Ayn Rand, "Brief Summary," The Objectivist, Sept. 1971

"Every man builds his world in his own image. He has the power to choose, but no power to escape the necessity of choice."

"Happiness is that state of consciousness which proceeds from the achievement of one's values."

"Money is only a tool. It will take you wherever you wish, but it will not replace you as the driver."

"The smallest minority on earth is the individual. Those who deny individual rights cannot claim to be defenders of minorities."