Creation comes before distribution - or there will be nothing to distribute. The need of the creator comes before the need of any possible beneficiary. Yet we are taught to admire the second-hander who dispenses gifts he has not produced above the man who made the gifts possible. We praise an act of charity. We shrug at an act of achievement.


For the New Intellectual: The Philosophy of Ayn Rand (50th Anniversary Edition) (ed. Penguin, 1963) - ISBN: 9781101137680

Ayn Rand Quotes

Creation comes before distribution - or there will be nothing to distribute. The need of the creator comes before the need of any possible...

Creation comes before distribution - or there will be nothing to distribute. The need of the creator comes before the need of any possible...

Creation comes before distribution - or there will be nothing to distribute. The need of the creator comes before the need of any possible...

Creation comes before distribution - or there will be nothing to distribute. The need of the creator comes before the need of any possible...