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..

Freedom comes from seeing the ignorance of your critics and discovering the emptiness of their virtue..

Faith and force ... are corollaries: every period of history dominated by mysticism, was a period of statism, of dictatorship, of tyranny..

I'm not brave enough to be a coward; I see the consequences too clearly..

Every aspect of Western culture needs a new code of ethics - a rational ethics - as a precondition of rebirth..

Laissez-faire capitalism is the only social system based on the recognition of individual rights and, therefore, the only system that bans force from….

The Romanticists predominantly, were enemies of capitalism, which they regarded as a prosaic, materialistic, “petty bourgeois” system — never realizi….

Some day, the world will discover that, without thought, there can be no love..

Through all the years that I spent formulating my philosophical system, I was looking desperately for “intelligent agreement” or at least for “intell….

Aristotle may be regarded as the cultural barometer of Western history. Whenever his influence dominated the scene, it paved the way for one of histo….

A genius is a genius, regardless of the number of morons who belong to the same race - and a moron is a moron, regardless of the number of geniuses w….

Learn to value yourself, which means: fight for your happiness..

It's good to suffer. Dont complain. Bear, bow, accept - and be grateful that God has made you suffer. For this makes you better than the people who a….

The adversary she found herself forced to fight was not worth matching or beating; it was not a superior ability which she would have found honour in….

No individual or private group or private organization has the legal power to initiate the use of physical force against other individuals or groups ….

Why have you been staring at me ever since we met? Because I’m not the Gail Wynand you’d heard about. You see, I love you. And love is exception-maki….

Civilization is the process of setting man free from men..