What I am fighting is the idea that charity is a moral duty and a primary virtue..

Show me your achievement, and the knowledge will give me courage for mine..

Throughout the centuries there were men who took first steps, down new roads, armed with nothing but their own vision..

She knew that she could not have reached this white serenity except as the sum of all the colors, of all the violence she had known..

Doctors are not servants of their patients, they are traders like everyone else in a free society and they should bear that title proudly considering….

p.61 He [Roark] was usually disliked, from the first sight of his face, anywhere he went. His face was closed like the door of a safety vault; things….

Do it first and feel about it afterwards.' - Dagny Taggart.

...If peace were the goal of today's intellectuals, a failure of that magnitude -- and the evidence of unspeakable suffering on so large a scale -- w….

I could die for you. But I couldn't, and wouldn't, live for you..

Paper is a check drawn by legal looters upon an account which is not theirs: upon the virtue of the victims. Watch for the day when it bounces, marke….

I worship individuals for their highest possibilities as individuals and I loathe humanity for its failure to live up to these possibilities..

Worry is a waste of emotional reserve"..

The word 'We' is as lime poured over men, which sets and hardens to stone, and crushes all beneath it, and that which is white and that which is blac….

Remember that rights are moral principles which define and protect a man's freedom of action, but impose no obligations on other men..

A viler evil than to murder a man, is to sell him suicide as an act of virtue..

Even if smog were a risk to human life, we must remember that life in nature, without technology, is wholesale death..

The concept of free competition enforced by law is a grotesque contradiction in terms..

Have you ever felt the longing for someone you could admire? For something, not to look down at, but up to?.

There is no transgression blacker than to do or think alone..

The cult of moral grayness is a revolt against moral values..

Just as man's physical existence was liberated when he grasped that 'nature, to be commanded, must be obeyed', so his consciousness will be liberated….