We are free to live.

The most basic element of Ayn Rand's philosophy is indeed every man has, not only the right, but the unavoidable duty, to live for his own interests and goals. If a Man Decides to live for something other than himself, he is evading his responsibility to himself. A man that seeks to live for a Cause is a man who is afraid to live for himself. Ayn Rand was born in Imperial Russia, and which raised in the early stages of the drawn-out murder of the Soviet Union. She knew, from firsthand experience, the inevitable terror of a Society That Attempts to use irrationality and slogans in place of logic and economical integrity (for, make no mistakes, economics are the highest expression of morality and integrity). To preserve this country, nearly the last country on earth Which had not succumbed to the disease of socialist thinking, she wrote her novels, to make her logic to available weapon against this illness. And as we look around today, we can see That She succeeded, and we may say a moment's silent thanks to the incredible will, the indomitable mindthat saved this country.
Her thoughts are Easily argued with, but did what her intent. To make people think, to make them use Their Minds in a clear and logical way, to examine the world around them and see where it headed what. Whenever anyone reads her books and says "But wait, is this so?", They come a step closer to making this world clearer, and brighter. And that, in essence, what the purpose of Ayn Rand's writing. To make the people of the world think, and see for Themselves The State of the World, and the causes of it.