Emotions are inherent in your nature, but their content is dictated by your mind. Your emotional capacity is an empty motor, and your values are the fuel with which your mind fills it.

If the truth shall kill them, let them die.

Potentially, a government is the most dangerous threat to man's rights: it holds a legal monopoly on the use of physical force against legally disarmed victims.

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

The truth is not for all men, but only for those who seek it.

When you see corruption being rewarded and honesty becoming a self-sacrifice, you may know that your society is doomed

We can evade reality, but we cannot evade the consequences of evading reality

So you think that money is the root of all evil. Have you ever asked what is the root of all money?

Every aspect of Western culture needs a new code of ethics - a rational ethics - as a precondition of rebirth.

You can ignore reality, but you can't ignore the consequences of ignoring reality.

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

Without Courage, Hope is a Universal liar.

...there would be punishment and pain, and there would be happiness, too. That was writing.

I closed my eyes and tried to sleep. But it was not until much later that I was able to get any real sleep. In a place far away from anyone or anywhere, I drifted off for a moment.

We must face the ultimate contradiction that our free and democratic society was made possible by massive slave labor.

The illiterate of the future will not be the person who cannot read. It will be the person who does not know how to learn.

You really have to act your pants off to stay alive. I thrive on that; I rise to the occasion of the circumstances.

I hated childhood, and spent it sitting behind a book waiting for adulthood to arrive.

We are kids. The only difference is the toy we have.

Religious people are atheists about all other gods, atheists only take it one god further.

I would not wear any clothes that had a brand name on them, and I only read books that were canonical.