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Mike Wallace : Who are you , Ayn Rand ? You have an accent , which is ?
Ayn Rand : Russian .
Mike Wallace : Russian . You were carry in Russia ?
Ayn Rand : Yes .
Mike Wallace : Came here ?
Ayn Rand : Oh , about 30 years ago .
Mike Wallace : And whence did this philosophy of yours number ?
Ayn Rand : Out of my own judgement , with the sole acknowledgement of a debt to Aristotle , who is the only philosopher that ever influenced me . I devised the eternal rest of my philosophy myself .
Mike Wallace : You are married ?
Mike Wallace : Your hubby , is he an industrialist ?
Ayn Rand : No . He ’s an creative person . His name is Frank O’Conner .
Mike Wallace : Does he live from his house painting ?
Ayn Rand : He ’s just beginning to study painting . He was a designer before .
Mike Wallace : Is he supported in his efforts by the state ?
Ayn Rand : Most for certain not .
Mike Wallace : He ’s supported by you for the time being ?
Ayn Rand : No , by his own work , actually , in the past times . [ CROSSTALK ] By me if necessary , but that is n’t quite necessary .
Mike Wallace : There is no contradiction in terms here , in that you help him ?
Ayn Rand : No , because you see I am in love with him selfishly . It is to my own interest to aid him if he ever needed it . I would not call that a sacrifice , because I take selfish pleasure in it .
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Ayn Rand : I say that man is title to his own felicity . And that he must achieve it himself . But that he can not demand that others give up their lives to make him felicitous . And nor should he wish to sacrifice himself for the felicity of others . I have that man should have ego - regard .
Mike Wallace : And can not man have self - esteem if he loves his fellow man ? Christ , every important moral leader in man ’s history , has taught us that we should love one another . Why then is this kind of dear in your mind immoral ?
Ayn Rand : It is base if it is a erotic love come out above oneself . It is more than immoral , it ’s impossible . Because when you are asked to have sex everybody every which way . That is to hump hoi polloi without any standard . To sleep with them disregardless of whether they have any value or virtue , you are asked to have it off nobody .
Mike Wallace : But in a sense , in your leger you talk about honey as if it were a business wad of some kind . Is n’t the burden of love , that it is above ego - interest ?
Ayn Rand : Well , What would it have in mind to have a love above ego - interest group ? It would imply , for instance , that a husband would tell his married woman , if he were moral according to the conventional morality , that I am marrying you just for your own sake , I have no personal stake in it , but I ’m so unselfish , that I am marrying you only for your own commodity .
Mike Wallace : Should husbands and wife tot up up …
Ayn Rand : Would any cleaning lady like that ? I concord with you that it should be regale like a business slew . But every line bargain has to have its own terms and its own kind of up-to-dateness . And in love the currency is virtue . You love the great unwashed , not for what you do for them , or what they do for you . You get laid them for their economic value , their virtues . You do n’t love causes . You do n’t love everybody indiscriminately . You roll in the hay only those who deserve it . valet has devoid will . If a world wants love he should compensate his flaws , and he may merit it . But he can not expect the unearned .
Mike Wallace : There are very few us then in this populace , by your monetary standard , who are desirable of love .
Ayn Rand : Unfortunately …. yes … very few . But it is undetermined to everybody , to make themselves worthy of it and that is all that my morality put up them . [ CROSSTALK ] A way to make themselves suitable of dear , although that ’s not the primary motive .
Mike Wallace : Isn’t it possible that we are all basically solitary people and we are all basically our pal ’ keepers ?
Ayn Rand : Nobody has ever give a ground why man should be their brothers ' keeper , and you see the examples around you , of men perishing by the attempt to be their brothers ' keepers .
Mike Wallace : You have no faith in anything .
Ayn Rand : Faith …. No .
Mike Wallace : Only in your mind .
Ayn Rand : That is not organized religion . That is a article of faith . Yes ….. I have no religion at all . I only take for judgment of conviction .
Mike Wallace : As we tell at the outset , " If Ayn Rand ’s ideas were ever to take hold , they would revolutionize the world . " And to those who would reject her doctrine , Miss Rand hurls this challenge . " For the preceding 2000 year the world has been overshadow by other philosophical system . Look around you , believe the effect . ” We give thanks Ayn Rand for add together her portrait to our gallery . One of the hoi polloi other people are concerned in . Mike Wallace … Good Bye .
