Ayn Rand Quotes:
Ocupation: Novelist
Life: February 2, 1905 - March 6, 1982
Birthday: February 2
Death: March 6
Men have been taught that their first concern is to relieve the suffering of others. ... To make that the highest test of virtue is to make suffering the most important part of life. Then man must wish to see others suffer in order that he may be virtuous. Such is the nature of altruism.
source: Ayn Rand (1963). “For the New Intellectual: The Philosophy of Ayn Rand (50th Anniversary Edition)”, p.64, Penguin
topic: Men, Order, Suffering Of Others, Fountainhead
