You'll get everything society can give a man. You'll keep all the money. You'll take any fame or honor anyone might want to grant. You'll accept such gratitude as the tenants might feel. And I - I'll take what nobody can give a man, except himself. I will have built Cortlandt. - Howard Roark

Man cannot demand that others give up their lives to make him happy.

Professional intellectuals are the voice of a culture and are, therefore, its leaders, its integrators and its bodyguards.

Only the man who extols the purity of love devoid of desire, is capable of the depravity of a desire devoid of love.

If you want to save capitalism there is only one type of argument that you should adopt, the only one that has ever won in any moral issue: the argument from self-esteem. Check your premises, convince yourself of the rightness of your cause, then fight for capitalism with full, moral certainty.

I guard my treasures: my thoughts, my will, my freedom. And the greatest of these is freedom.

Force and mind are opposites; morality ends where a gun begins.