Ocupation: Novelist
Life: February 2, 1905 - March 6, 1982
Birthday: February 2
Death: March 6
We the Living is not a novel 'about Soviet Russia.' It is a novel about Man against the State. Its basic theme is the sanctity of human life - using the word 'sanctity' not in a mystical sense, but in the sense of 'supreme value.'
- Ayn Rand
source: Ayn Rand (2009). “We the Living”, p.10, Penguin
topic: Men, Russia, Human Life, Soviet Russia, Sanctity Of Human Life