The right to life is the source of all rights -- and the right to property is their only implementation. Without property rights, no other rights are possible. Since man has to sustain his life by his own effort, the man who has no right to the product of his effort has no means to sustain his life. The man who produces while others dispose of his product, is a slave.
Ayn RandThe man without a purpose is a man who drifts at the mercy of random feelings or unidentified urges and is capable of any evil, because he is totally out of control of his own life. In order to be in control of your life, you have to have a purpose-a productive purpose.
Ayn RandThrough all the years that I spent formulating my philosophical system, I was looking desperately for โintelligent agreementโ or at least for โintelligent disagreement.โ I found neither. Today, I am not looking for โintelligent disagreementโ any longer ... What I am looking for is intelligent agreement.
Ayn Rand