All work is an act of philosophy..

There are no little people in America. There are only people, equal before the law, yearning to breathe free and wanting to achieve the best within t….

The worst guilt is to accept an undeserved guilt — and that is what you have been doing all your life..

In any compromise between food and poison, it is only death that can win. In any compromise between good and evil, it is only evil that can profit..

Wealth is the product of man's capacity to think..

Collectivism is the ancient principle of savagery. ... Collectivism is not the 'New Order of Tomorrow.' It is the order of a very dark yesterday..

It's so graceless, being a martyr. It's honoring your adversaries too much..

"Mediocrity" doesn't mean average intelligence, it means an average intelligence that resents and envies its betters..

I know not if this earth on which I stand is the core of the universe or if it is but a speck of dust lost in eternity. I know not and I care not. Fo….

A desire presupposes the possibility of action to achieve it; action presupposes a goal which is worth achieving..

It is not death that we wish to avoid, but life that we wish to live..

The more you learn, the more you know that you know nothing..

But why should you care what people will say? All you have to do is please yourself..

One method of destroying a concept is by diluting its meaning. Observe that by ascribing rights to the unborn, i.e., the nonliving, the anti-abortion….

The lust that drives others to enslave an empire, had become, in her limits, a passion for power over him. She had set out to break him, as if, unabl….

He despised causeless affection, just as he despised unearned wealth. They professed to love him for some unknown reason and they ignored all the thi….

Are my characters copies of people in real life? ... Don't ever believe the stories about authors putting people into novels. That idea is a kind of ….

It's the person who would sell his soul for a nickel, who is loudest in proclaiming his hatred of money.... Let me give you a tip on men's characters….

Freedom, in a political context, means freedom from government coercion. It does not mean freedom from the landlord, from the employer, or freedom fr….

A story is an end in itself. It is not written to teach, sell, explain or destroy anything. It is not written even to entertain. It is written as a m….

Collectivism answers: The power of society is unlimited. Society may make any laws it wishes, and force them upon anyone in any manner it wishes..