Atlas Shrugged (Centennial Ed. HC) Hardcover – Big Book, 21 April 2005

Justo lo que quería y más. No dudes en comprarlo.

The most chapter that captivate me was when John Galt spoke. He tells us that we are people on a mission. "Happiness is the successful state of life, pain is an agent of death" "to exist is to be something" 🙏🏾

Great read

Don’t suggest buying this version, the font size is too small.

For the love of life, read this book! Its a literary masterpiece!! and this book brings you to the life. Dont attempt to read this book with a preconceived perception on Ayn Rand's works. To understand her philosophical thoughts of "Objectivism", you MUST read this book and read it twice or thrice.. Till that point, you might not be able to comprehend the concept of "objectivism". As some one said, "They have Ayn Rand. But we don't ". This book must be read by everyone during their graduation. That essentially adds and enriches your life with a code of Moral Values.And ofcourse, this has heightened my appreciation of my life!! my Employers!! my fellow human beings!! Here are few excerpts from the book which need to be inscribed on everybody's mind. At least, I did, after reading this book:What is Morality? "Judgement to distinguish right and wrong, Vision to see the truth, Courage to act upon it, Dedication to that which is good, Integrity to stand by the good at any price ""In order to live, man must act; in order to act, he must make choices; in order to make choices, he must define a code of values; in order to define a code of values, he must know what he is and where he is—i.e., he must know his own nature (including his means of knowledge) and the nature of the universe in which he acts—i.e., he needs metaphysics, epistemology, ethics, which means: philosophy. He cannot escape from this need; his only alternative is whether the philosophy guiding him is to be chosen by his mind or by chance.""Money is the barometer of the society's virtue. Money is so noble a medium that it does not compete with guns and it doesn't make terms with brutality. It will not permit a country to survive as half-property, half-loot. Money demands that you sell, not your weakness to men's stupidity , but your talent to their reason; it demands that you buy , not the shoddiest they offer, but the best that your money can find ""To the glory of mankind, there was , for the first and only time in history, "a country of money"-- and I have no higher or more reverent tribute to pay to America,for this means: a country of reason, justice, freedom, production, achievement. For the first time, man's mind and money were set free, and there were no fortunes-by-conquest, but only fortunes-by-work, and instead of swordsmen and slaves, there appeared the real maker of wealth, the greatest worker, the highest type of human being--the self-made man--the American industrialist.If you ask me to name the proudest distinction of Americans, I would choose--because it contains all the others --the fact that they are the people who created the phrase 'to make money'. No other language or nation have ever used these words before; men had always thought of wealth as a static quantity--to be seized , begged, inherited, shared, looted or obtained as a favor. Americans were the first to understand that wealth has to be created. The words 'to make money; holds the essence of human morality.""There is no way to rule innocent men. The only power any government has is the power to crack down on criminals. Well, when there aren't enough criminals, one makes them. One declares so many things to be a crime that it becomes impossible for men to live without breaking laws. Who wants a nation of law-abiding citizens? What's there in that for anyone? But just pass the kind of laws that can neither be observed nor enforced nor objectively interpreted--and you create a nation of lawbreakers --and then you cash in on guilt. Now that's the system, that's the game. "