It is morally obscene to regard wealth as an anonymous, tribal product and to talk about 'redistributing' it.
Ayn RandLitigants obey the verdict of a tribunal solely on the premise that there is an objective rule of conduct, which they both accept.
Ayn RandSince nature does not endow all men with equal beauty or equal intelligence, and the faculty of volition leads men to make different choices, the egalitarians propose to abolish the "unfairness" of nature and of volition, and to establish universal equality in fact - in defiance of facts. It is not equality before the law that they seek, but inequality: the establishment of an inverted social pyramid, with a new aristocracy on top - the aristocracy of non-value.
Ayn Rand