If I were to speak your kind of language, I would say that man's only moral commandment is: Thou shalt think. But a 'moral commandment' is a contradi….

If you agree with some tenets of Objectivism, but disagree with others, do not call yourself an Objectivist; give proper authorship credit for the pa….

Men have been taught that it is a virtue to stand together. But the creator is the man who stands alone..

If you write a whole line of zeroes, it's still — nothing..

But I don't think of you. - Howard Roark.

"You were not born to be a second-hander." Howard Roark to Gail Wynand in "The Fountainhead".

Since only an individual man can possess rights, the expression "individual rights"? is a redundancy (which one has to use for purposes of clarificat….

There can be no justification for choosing any part of that which one knows to be evil..

The right of a nation to determine its own form of government does not include the right to establish a slave society (that is, to legalize the ensla….

Every form of happiness if one, every desire is driven by the same motor--by our love for a single value, for the highest potentiality of our own exi….

The only power any government has is the power to crack down on criminals. Well, when there aren.

Whatever their future, at the dawn of their lives, men seek a noble vision of man's nature and of life's potential..

Freedom of association includes the freedom not to associate..

There is nothing to take a man’s freedom away from him, save other men..

When you see that trading is done, not by consent, but by compulsion...th at in order to produce, you need to obtain permission from men who produce ….

[Altruism] is a moral system which holds that man has no right to exist for his own sake, that service to others is the sole justification of his exi….

Do you know the hallmark of the second-rater? It's resentment of another man's achievement..

Genius is an exaggeration of dimension. So is elephantiasis. Both may be only a disease..

If you want to feel good, be rational..

Capitalism is a social system based on the recognition of individual rights, including property rights, in which all property is privately owned..

There is no affirmation without the one who affirms. in this sense, everything to which you grant your love is yours.