Reason can be fought with reason. How are you going to fight the unreasonable? The trouble with you, my dear, and with most people, is that you don’t have sufficient respect for the senseless. The senseless is the major factor in our lives. You have no chance if it is your enemy.

Morality is a code of black and white. When and if men attempt a compromise, it is obvious which side will necessarily lose and which will necessarily profit.

Do it first and feel about it afterwards.' - Dagny Taggart

Action without thought is mindlessness, and thought without action is hypocritical.

The ' pleasure' of being drunk is obviously the pleasure of escaping from the responsibility of Consciousness.

Nobody has ever given a reason why men should be their brother's keepers.

We didn't really have to take everything so seriously, did we?