A rational man is guided by his thinking - by a process of Reason - not by his feelings and desires.

Faith is the commitment of one's consciousness to beliefs for which one has no sensory evidence or rational proof. A mystic is a man who treats his feelings as tools of cognition. Faith is the equation of feeling with knowledge.

To abstain from condemning a torturer, is to become an accessory to the torture and murder of his victims.

Individual rights are not subject to a public vote; a majority has no right to vote away the rights of a minority; the political function of rights is precisely to protect minorities from oppression by majorities (and the smallest minority on earth is the individual).

The nation which once held the creed that greatness is achieved by production, is now told that it is achieved by squalor.

Within the extent of your knowledge, you are right.

Fransisco, you're some kind of very high nobility, aren't you?" He answered, "Not yet. The reason my family has lasted for such a long time is that none of us has ever been permitted to think he is born a d'Anconia. We are expected to become one.