Art is the indispensable medium for the communication of a moral ideal.

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

Those who say theory and practice are two unrelated realms are fools in one and scoundrels in the other.

Civilization does not have to perish. The brutes are winning only by default.

Can you sacrifice a few? When those few are the best? Deny the best its right to the top--and you have no best left. What are your masses but millions of dull, shriveled, stagnant souls that have no thoughts of their own, no dreams of their own, no will of their own, who eat and sleep and chew helplessly the words others put into their brains? And for those you would sacrifice the few who know life, who are life? I loathe [Andrei] your ideals because I know no worse injustice than the giving of the undeserved. Because men are not equal in ability and one can't trust them as if they were.

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

Some day, the world will discover that, without thought, there can be no love.