Occupation: Novelist Birth: February 2, 1905 Death: March 6, 1982
A 'mixed economy' is a society in the process of committing suicide..
A good quotation must be a complete entity. It must be like a headline - sharp, clear, whole..
I don't wish to be the symbol of anything. I'm only myself..
Don't ever get angry at a man for stating the truth..
To fear to face an issue is to believe that the worst is true..
This god, this one word: I..
A man of independent judgment is a man of profound self-esteem..
Kill reverence and you've killed the hero in man..
In all proper relationships there is no sacrifice of anyone to anyone..
For the first time since her return, she felt pain, a violent pain, but it made her feel alive, because it was worth feeling..
While, politically, a mixed economy preserves the semblance of an organized society with a semblance of law and order, economically it is the equival….
the important consideration is not your opponents, but yourself. It is bad to scream at them, not because it hurts them, they ought to be hurt, but b….
He walked, groping for a sentence that hung in his mind as an empty shape. He could neither fill it or dismiss it..
To interpose the threat of physical destruction between a man and his perception of reality, is to negate and paralyze his means of survival to force….
It is a free market that makes monopolies impossible..
Whoever claims the right to redistribute the wealth produced by others is claiming the right to treat human beings as chattel..
Through all the darkness, through all the shame of which men are capable, the spirit of man will remain alive on this earth. It may sleep, but it wil….
The fight we are in here, make no mistake about it, is a fight of individualism versus collectivism..
Do not let your fire go out ... Do not let the Hero in your soul perish ... Check your road and the nature of your battle. The world you desired can ….
John Galt is Prometheus who changed his mind. After centuries of being torn by vultures in payment for having brought to men the fire of the gods, he….
But the mind is an attribute of the individual. There is no such thing as a collective brain. There is no such thing as a collective thought. An agre….