安·兰德（Ayn Rand，1905 – 1982）， 是俄裔美国作家和哲学家。她以两本畅销小说《源泉》（Fountainhead）和《阿特拉斯耸耸肩》（Atlas Shrugged）而闻名，并创立了一套她称之为“客观主义”的哲学体系。她在俄罗斯出生并接受教育，1926年移居美国。她于1935年和1936年在百老汇演出了一部戏剧。
她早期的两部小说起初都不成功，但1943年的小说《源泉》使她名声大噪。1957年，兰德出版了她最著名的小说《阿特拉斯耸耸肩》。之后，她转向非小说类作品来推广她的哲学，出版自己的期刊，并出版了几本散文集，直到1982年去世。
英汉智慧语录 English and Chinese Brainy Quotes
We can evade reality, but we cannot evade the consequences of evading reality.
我们可以逃避现实，但我们不能逃避“逃避现实”所带来的后果。
Wealth is the product of man’s capacity to think.
财富是一个人的思考能力的产物。
Every man builds his world in his own image. He has the power to choose, but no power to escape the necessity of choice.
每个人都按照自己的想法建造自己的世界。他有选择的权力，但他没有权力逃避选择。
The question isn’t who is going to let me; it’s who is going to stop me.
问题不是谁将允许我，而是谁将阻止我。
Man’s unique reward, however, is that while animals survive by adjusting themselves to their background, man survives by adjusting his background to himself.
然而，人类唯一的回报是，动物是通过适应自身环境而生存，而人类则通过让环境适应自身而生存。
Since there is no such entity as ‘the public,’ since the public is merely a number of individuals, the idea that ‘the public interest’ supersedes private interests and rights can have but one meaning: that the interests and rights of some individuals take precedence over the interests and rights of others.由于没有所谓诸如“公众“这样的实体， 因为“公众“仅仅是一些个体组成的, 所以认为“公共利益”取代私人利益和权利的想法只有一个意思: 有些人的利益和权利优先于另一些人的利益和权利。
You have been called selfish for the courage of acting on your own judgement and bearing sole responsibility for your own life. You have been called arrogant for your independent mind. You have been called cruel for your unyielding integrity. You have been calle anti social for the vision that made you venture upon undiscovered roads.
你被称为自私，因为你有勇气按照自己的判断行事，并对自己的生活承担全部责任；你被人称为傲慢， 因为你有独立的思想；你被称为残忍， 因为你刚强正直；你被称为反社会，因为你有远见敢于冒险探索未知的道路。
A businessman cannot force you to buy his product; if he makes a mistake, he suffers the consequences; if he fails, he takes the loss. If bureaucrat makes a mistake, you suffer the consequences; if he fails, he passes the loss on to you.
商人不能强迫你买他的产品; 如果他犯了错误，他就要承担后果; 如果他失败了，他就承担损失。如果政府官僚犯了错，你要承担后果; 如果他失败了，他会把损失转给你。
