
Section 9 : Ethical Outlook
Life and Destiny (1913)
Section 9 : Ethical Outlook
Founding Address (1876), Life and Destiny (1913)
Context: The right for the right's sake is the motto which everyone should take for his own life. With that as a standard of value we can descend into our hearts, appraise ourselves, and determine in how far we already are moral beings, in how far not yet.
Section 9 : Ethical Outlook
Life and Destiny (1913)
Source: The Early Ayn Rand: A Selection from Her Unpublished Fiction
Writers at Work interview (1963)
“Everyone has the right to tell the truth about her own life.”
Source: The Courage to Heal: A Guide for Women Survivors of Child Sexual Abuse
“The Obscurity of the Poet”, p. 24
Poetry and the Age (1953)
Context: People always ask: For whom does the poet write? He needs only to answer, For whom do you do good? Are you kind to your daughter because in the end someone will pay you for being?... The poet writes his poem for its own sake, for the sake of that order of things in which the poem takes the place that has awaited it.
“He had no right to take the law into his own hands.”
Tarleton v. McGawley (1795), 2 Peake, N. P. Ca. 208
James M. McPherson. Battle Cry of Freedom http://historynewsnetwork.org/blog/153655 (1988) p. 241
1980s