Value is that which one acts to gain and/or keep. Virtue is the act by which one aims and/or keeps it.
Ayn RandIf he can give his readers no reason why they should read his book, except that the events happened to him, it is not a valid book.
Ayn RandCollectivism holds that the individual has no rights, that his life and work belong to the group (to "society," to the tribe, the state, the nation) and that the group may sacrifice him at its own whim to its own interests. The only way to implement a doctrine of that kind is by means of brute force - and statism has always been the poltical corollary of collectivism.
Ayn RandScience was born as a result and consequence of philosophy; it cannot survive without a philosophical base. If philosophy perishes, science will be next to go.
Ayn Rand