Quotes About Rand

All public projects are mausoleums, not always in shape, but always in cost.

We will build a society dedicated to higher ideals, and we will replace the aristocracy of money by—" "—the aristocracy of pull," said a voice beyond the group. They whirled around. The man who stood facing them was Francisco d'Anconia.

the first word of 'Free, scientific inquiry' was redundant. He seems to have forgotten it. Well, I'll just say that 'Governmental scientific inquiry' is a contradiction in terms.

glassy rustle which was the East River somewhere close by

Just passing by," said Keating, "with an evening to kill and happened to think

city. It looked as it had always looked. He walked on, reminding himself that he

Let's be cautious about dreaming up extreme scenarios. The situation in Iraq is still salvageable.

Rand knew that people don't care if something doesn't work, as long as the dominant morality of altruism tells them that it is right.

if Rand was equal to Old

documents out of RAND. As Ellsberg wrote in his 2002 book, Secrets, "What I had in my safe at RAND was seven thousand pages of documentary evidence of lying, by four presidents

The implication—never questioned by anyone at RAND while I was there—was that adequate deterrence for the United States demanded a survivable, assured second-strike capability to kill more than the twenty million Soviet citizens who had died in World War II. That meant we were working to assure the survival under attack of a capability for retaliatory genocide, though none of us ever thought of it in those terms for a moment.

This was one of Kissinger's first visits to Rand, after a long period of coldness that had begun in the late 1950s because of Rand's critique of his advocacy of limited nuclear wars as instruments of U.S. policy in his 1957 book Nuclear Weapons and Foreign Policy.

Neither of us joined the extremely generous retirement plan RAND offered. Neither of us believed, in our late twenties, we had a chance of collecting on it.