"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." ~~Any Rand
"The world you desired can be won,
it exists,
it is real,
it is possible,
it's yours.
it exists,
it is real,
it is possible,
it's yours.
But to win it requires total dedication and a total break with the world of your past,
with the doctrine that man is sacrificial animal who exists for the pleasure of others.
Fight for the value of your person.
Fight for the virtue of your pride.
Fight for the essence, which is man, for his sovereign rational mind.
Fight with the radiant certainty and the absolute rectitude of knowing that yours is the morality of life
and yours is the battle for
any achievement,
any value,
any grandeur,
any goodness,
any joy
that has ever existed on this earth."
John Galt quote that ended Ayn Rand's last public speech (New Orleans Nov 1981)
