I am opposed to all forms of control. I am for an absolute, laissez-faire, free, unregulated economy..

Observe how many people evade, rationalize and drive their minds into a state of blind stupor, in dread of discovering that those they deal with- the….

There is no such dichotomy as 'human rights' versus 'property rights.' No human rights can exist without property rights..

Love is not self-sacrifice, but the most profound assertion of your own needs and values. It is for your own happiness that you need the person you l….

That time and those people are upon you!.

The action required to sustain human life is primarily intellectual; everything man needs has to be discovered by his mind and produced by his effort..

The uncontested absurdities of today are the accepted slogans of tomorrow. They come to be accepted by degrees, by dint of constant pressure on one s….

The charming aspect of Christmas is the fact that it expresses good will in a cheerful, happy, benevolent, non-sacrificial way. One says: “Merry Chri….

But you see," said Roark quietly, "I have, let’s say, sixty years to live. Most of that time will be spent working. I’ve chosen the work I want to do….

By what he chooses to present and by how he presents it, any author expresses his fundamental, metaphysical values..

the worst wars are religious wars between sects of the same religion or civil wars between brothers of the same race..

Man's mind is his basic tool of survival. Life is given to him, survival is not. His body is given to him, its sustenance is not. His mind is given t….

Of all the statist violations of individual rights in a mixed economy, the military draft is the worst. It is an abrogation of rights. It negates man….

Ideas are the greatest and most crucially practical power on earth..

I want to know that I've accomplished something. I want to feel that it had some meaning. At the last summing up, I want to be sure it wasn't all-for….

Force and mind are opposites; morality ends where a gun begins..

Gold was an objective value, an equivalent of wealth produced. Paper is a mortgage on wealth that does not exist, backed by a gun aimed at those who ….

A society that robs an individual of the product of his effort ... is not strictly speaking a society, but a mob held together by institutionalized g….

When I disagree with a rational man, I let reality be our final arbiter; if I am right, he will learn; if I am wrong, I will; one of us will win, but….

She thought: at this moment, the glass stem between his fingers feels just like the one between mine. We have this much in common..

Capitalism has been called nationalistic - yet it is the only system that banished ethnicity, and made it possible, in the United States, for men of ….