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..

To the extent to which a man is rational, life is the premise directing his actions. To the extent to which he is irrational, the premise directing h….

You don't love causes. You don't love everybody indiscriminately. You love only those who deserve it..

To deal with men by force is as impractical as to deal with nature by persuasion..

Man's basic vice, the source of all his evils, is the act of unfocusing his mind, the suspension of his consciousness, which is not blindness, but th….

Poverty is not a mortgage on the labor of others-misfortu ne is not a mortgage on achievement-fai lure is not a mortgage on success-sufferi ng is not….

If men want to oppose war, it is statism that they must oppose..

God help us, ma'am! Do you see what we saw? We saw that we'd been given a law to live by, a moral law, they called it, which punished those who obser….

Let no man posture as an advocate of peace if he proposes or supports any social system that initiates the use of force against individual men, in an….

Kira, the highest thing in man is not his god. It's that in him which knows the reverence due a god. And you, Kira, are my highest reverence..

Romantic art is the fuel and the spark plug of a Man's soul. It's task is to set a soul on fire and never let it go out..

Money demands that you sell, not your weakness to men's stupidity, but your talent to their reason..