Only the man who does not need it, is fit to inherit wealth, the man who would make his fortune no matter where he started..

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

The smallest minority on earth is the individual. Those who deny individual rights cannot claim to be defenders of minorities..

Every man builds his world in his own image. He has the power to choose, but no power to escape the necessity of choice..

Theirs is the banner in my hand. And I wish I had the power to tell them that the despair of their hearts was not to be final, and their night was no….

There are four characteristics which brand a country unmistakably as a dictatorship: one-party rule, executions without trial or with a mock trial fo….

Money is just a tool. It will take you anywhere you want, but you have to be the driver.

A good novel is an indivisible sum; every scene, sequence and passage of a good novel has to involve, contribute to and advance all three of its majo….

Since time immemorial and pre-industrial, 'greed' has been the accusation hurled at the rich by the concrete-bound illiterates who were unable to con….

Namely, if I am challenging the base of all these institutions, I'm challenging the moral code of altruism. The precept that man's moral duty is to l….

Ask yourself whether the dream of heaven and greatness should be waiting for us in our graves - or whether it should be ours here and now and on this….

One must never fail to pronounce moral judgment..

You don't know how hard I've tried to be left standing all by myself..

I got the idea [for Anthem's theme] in my school days, in Soviet Russia, when I heard all the vicious attacks on individualism, and asked myself what….

There's something I want you to know,' said Cherryl, her voice taut and harsh, 'so that there won't be any pretending about it. I'm not going to put ….

When one turns from reason to faith, when one rejects the absolutism of reality, one undercuts the absolutism of one's consciousness - and one's mind….

The man who attempts to live for others is a dependent. He is a parasite in motive and makes parasites of those he serves..

And what, incidentally, do you think integrity is? The ability not to pick a watch out of your neighbor's pocket? No, it's not as easy as that. If th….

A building has integrity just like a man. And just as seldom..

You still love me - even if there's one expression of it that you will always feel and want, but will not give me no longer. I'm still what I was, an….

The social system based on and consonant with the altruist morality-with the code of self-sacrifice- is socialism, in all or any of its variants: fas….