She knew that even pain can be confessed, but to confess happiness is to stand naked, delivered to the witness..

A free mind and a free market are corollaries..

Art is the indispensable medium for the communication of a moral ideal..

I say that man is entitled to his own happiness and that he must achieve it himself. But that he cannot demand that others give up their lives to mak….

A building has integrity, just as a man and just as seldom! It must be true to its own idea, have its own form, and serve its own purpose!.

One loses everything when one loses one's sense of humor..

He, too, stood looking at her for a moment - and it seemed to her that it was not a look of greeting after an absence, but the look of someone who ha….

If the rest of them can survive only by destroying us, then why should we wish them to survive? . . . Nothing can make it moral to destroy the best. ….

Roark smiled, "Gail, if this boat were sinking, I'd give my life to save you. Not because it's any kind of duty. Only because I like you, for reasons….

It is a policeman’s duty to retrieve stolen property and return it to its owners. But when robbery becomes the purpose of the law, and the policeman’….

We have come to see how great is the unexplored..

The causes of illusions are not pretty to discover. They're either vicious or tragic..

We are on strike, we, the men of the mind. We are on strike against self-immolation. We are on strike against the creed of unearned rewards and unrew….

Politically, the goal of today’s dominant trend is statism. Philosophically, the goal is the obliteration of reason; psychologically, it is the erosi….

Productiveness is your acceptance of morality, your recognition of the fact that you choose to live..

Any work is creative work if done by a thinking mind..

The purpose of the law is not to prevent a future offense, but to punish the one actually committed..

Are you in a universe which is ruled by natural laws and, therefore, is stable, firm, absolute - and knowable? Or are you in an incomprehensible chao….

An emotion as much tells you nothing about reality, beyond the fact that something makes you feel something..

Look, Gail." Roark got up, reached out, tore a thick branch off a tree, held it in both hands, one fist closed at each end; then, his wrists and knuc….

As we gain knowledge, we do not become more certain, we become certain of more..