Individual rights are not subject to a public vote; a majority has no right to vote away the rights of a minority.
Ayn RandLove is our response to our highest values. Love is self-enjoyment. The noblest love is born out of admiration of another's values.
Ayn RandShe's a writer. The kind of writer who wouldn't be published outside. She believes that when one deals with words, one deals with the mind.
Ayn RandThroughout the centuries there were men who took first steps, down new roads, armed with nothing but their own vision.
Ayn RandA rational process is a moral process. You may make an error at any step of it, with nothing to protect you but your own severity, or you may try to cheat, to fake the evidence and evade the effort of the quest - but if devotion to the truth is the hallmark of morality, then there is no greater, nobler, more heroic form of devotion than the act of a man who assumes the responsibility of thinking.
Ayn Rand