Justice is the recognition of the fact that you cannot fake the character of men as you cannot fake the character of nature, that you must judge all ….

Man has been called a rational being, but rationality is a matter of choice-and the alternative his nature offers him is: rational being or suicidal ….

It's not that I don't suffer, it's that I know the unimportance of suffering..

The self you have betrayed is your mind; self-esteem is reliance on one’s power to think. The ego you seek, that essential “you” which you cannot exp….

I want every fan of Rand to hear [Polaha] say the classic Galt phrase: “I swear by my life and my love of it that I will never live for the sake of a….

I do not enter discussions with neighbors who think they can forbid me to think. I do not place my moral sanction upon a murderer's wish to kill me. ….

If there are degrees of evil, it is hard to say who is more contemptible: the brute who assumes the right to force the mind of others or the moral de….

No matter how vast your knowledge or how modest, it is your own mind that has to acquire it..

Man's mind is his basic tool of survival. Life is given to him, survival is not..

Government power is always abused by seizing and perverting the law. And with few exceptions, government always determines what is law..

As there can be no causeless wealth, so there can be no causeless love or any sort of causeless emotion..

Evil is impotent and has no power but that which we let it extort from us..

The cloven-foot of self-interest was now and then to be seen aneath the robe of public principle..

Discard the protective rags of that vice which you called a virtue: humility. Learn to value yourself, which means: to FIGHT for your happiness, and ….

A trader is a man who earns what he gets and does not give or take the undeserved..

Pride is the recognition of the fact that you are your own highest value and, like all of man's values, it has to be earned-that of any achievements ….

Whenever a man denounces the mind, it is because his goal is of a nature the mind would not permit him to confess..

Man cannot survive except by gaining knowledge, and reason is his only means to gain it..

All property and all forms of wealth are produced by man's mind and labor..

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….

I seek no values by means of evil, nor do I surrender my values to evil..