If any civilization is to survive, it is the morality of altruism that men have to reject.

The only thing that matters my goal my reward my beginning my end is the work itself. My work done my way. A private personal selfish egotistical motivation. That’s the only way I function. That’s all I am.

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.

Any group or "collective", large or small, is only a number of individuals. A group can have no rights other than the rights of its individual members.

Peter Keating: "Do you always have to have a purpose? Do you always have to be so damn serious? Can't you ever do things without reason, just like everybody else? You're so serious, so old. Everything's important with you. Everything's great, significant in some way, every minute, even when you keep still. Can't you ever be comfortable-and unimportant?" | Howard Roark: "No."

Money is so noble a medium that it does not compete with guns and it does not make terms with brutality. It will not permit a country to survive as half-property, half-loot.

Freedom (n.): To ask nothing. To expect nothing. To depend on nothing.