The man-worshipers, in my sense of the term, are those who see man's highest potential and strive to actualize it. The man-haters are those who regar….

If any civilization is to survive, it is the morality of altruism that men have to reject..

A leash is a rope with a noose at both ends..

The sky is like a black sieve pierced by silver drops that tremble, ready to burst through..

... reason accepts no commandments..

I refuse to apologize for my ability -- I refuse to apologize for my success -- I refuse to apologize for my money. If this is evil, make the most of….

There’s 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 crimin….

You have been the one encounter in my life that can never be repeated.

Love is the expression of one's values, the greatest reward you can earn for the moral qualities you have achieved in your character and person, the ….

An artist recreates those aspects of reality which represent his fundamental view of man's nature..

To hold an unchanging youth is to reach at the end, the vision with which one started..

Whenever destroyers appear among men, they start by destroying money, for money is men's protection, and the base of a moral existence..

I want to be prepared to claim the greatest virtue of all - that I was a man who made money.

Their eyes were dark and hard and glowing, with no fear in them, no kindness and no guilt..

in architecture, mediocrity is more glaringly obvious than in other lines - because there's a huge, physical object such as a building to demonstrate….

My pride and my power of vision were all that I owned when I started - and whatever I achieved, was achieved by means of them. Both are greater now. ….

About Mike the construction worker, friend of Roark: "He worshipped expertness of any kind. He loved his work passionately and had no tolerance for a….

Man is the only living species that has the power to act as his own destroyer - and that is the way he has acted through most of his history..

Who was it that said he needed a fulcrum? Give me an unobstructed right-of-way and I'll show them how to move the earth!.

Volumes can be and have been written about the issue of freedom versus dictatorship, but, in essence, it comes down to a single question: do you cons….

In a free society, one does not have to deal with those who are irrational. One is free to avoid them..