Ayn Rand developed her own moral and philosophical system to justify individualism and to connect the individual to capitalism
Ayn Rand is a purist.
It seems like Ayn Rand is very cranky, but there's, I mean, it's the most charismatic, cranky person I think I've ever listened to.
That's Ayn Rand's philosophy.
That’s Ayn Rand talking.
- I just re-listened to Ayn Rand's, I think, last lecture, or at least it's called that, and just the confrontational nature
One of my favorite is Ayn Rand, or Ayn Rand.
Institute a philosophy in this country of Ayn Rand that not only do you have no right to ask anybody anything.
philosophers high on Nietzsche and Ayn Rand who hoped only to find professors worthy of having them as a student, she had no need to travel David with their essays.
We want to be as empowered as Ayn Rand.
And then it also plays out in their lives in that Ayn Rand is incredibly schismatic.
And basically, Ayn Rand, and at one point, Milton Friedman, based on his own son, he says, but if you look closely, there are some who are anarchists.
It's not going through the roof in the Ayn Rand thing.
So Milton Friedman and Ayn Rand, in the biggest picture, they're both individualists, and they're skeptical of collectivities and collectivism.
Forget all the principles of Ayn Rand and all the rest.
She wrote two biographies, one on Milton Friedman and the other on Ayn Rand, both of which I highly recommend.
You have written two biographies, one on Milton Friedman and one on Ayn Rand.
We want to be as empowered as Ayn Rand.
So Kalanick epitomizes that libertarianism, he used to have an Ayn Rand photo on his Twitter
And, you know, that was there in my family throughout, so lots of books, trashy books, good books, everything from Ayn Rand, to books on philosophy,
And so within the kind of broader theme of libertarianism, there was a lot of influence from people like Ayn Rand,
So beyond this idea that Milton Friedman takes a while to come to his justification of capitalism, whereas Ayn Rand kind of has it from the start.
Or, you know, I'll meet someone and they'll say to me, "You know, Ayn Rand is the reason I went to medical school."
You know, like a woman said this to me a few years back, "It never even occurred to me that I could be a doctor until I read Ayn Rand.
And then finally unless you believe in the extreme, I think, of the Ayn Rand philosophy, you want to provide some minimum level of decent comfort
was the architecture of deregulation that Wall Street had purchased until 2008, after the dean of deregulation, the Ayn Rand-ian, Alan Greenspan, Head of the Fed, confessed
William F Buckley, Mr. Individual, Ayn Rand.
We want to be as empowered as Ayn Rand.
are selfish, but there is a strain of belief, particularly in the Ayn Rand part of the movement that believes people ought to be selfish, that that is a virtue, that humans are always