Defiance, not obedience, is the American's answer to overbearing authority.

Learn to value yourself, which means: fight for your happiness.

Those who grant sympathy to guilt, grant none to innocence.

I am an intransigent atheist, though not a militant one. This means that I am not fighting against religion - I am fighting for reason.

Why have you been staring at me ever since we met? Because I’m not the Gail Wynand you’d heard about. You see, I love you. And love is exception-making. If you were in love you’d want to be broken, trampled, ordered, dominated, because that’s the impossible, in the inconceivable for you in your relations with people. That would be the one gift, the great exception you’d want to offer the man you loved. But it wouldn’t be easy for you.

The man-worshipers, in my sense of the term, are those who see man's highest potential and strive to actualize it. The man-haters are those who regard man as a helpless, depraved, contemptible creature-and struggle never to let him discover otherwise.

The uncontested absurdities of today are the accepted slogans of tomorrow.