And here, over the portals of my fort, I shall cut in the stone the word which is to be my beacon and my banner. The word which will not die should we all perish in battle. The word which can never die on this earth, for it is the heart of it and the meaning and the glory. The sacred word: EGO
Ayn RandThe truly and deliberately evil men are a very small minority; it is the appeaser who unleashes them on mankind.
Ayn RandThe attack on "selfishness" is an attack on man's self-esteem; to surrender one, is to surrender the other.
Ayn RandA culture is not the anonymous product of undifferentiate d masses, but the sum of the intellectual achievements of individual men.
Ayn RandThese are the things before me. And as I stand here at the door of glory, I look behind me for the last time. I look upon the history of men, which I have learned from the books, and I wonder. It was a long story, and the spirit which moved it was the spirit of manโs freedom. But what is freedom? Freedom from what? There is nothing to take a manโs freedom away from him, save other men. To be free, a man must be free of his brothers. That is freedom. This and nothing else.
Ayn Rand