We have only two sources of information about the character of the people around us: we judge them by what they do and by what they say (particularly the first).

When you see that trading is done, not by consent, but by compulsion - when you see that in order to produce, you need to obtain permission from men who produce nothing - when you see that money is flowing to those who deal, not in goods, but in favors - when you see that men get richer by graft and by pull than by work, and your laws don't protect you against them, but protect them against you - when you see corruption being rewarded and honesty becoming a self-sacrifice - you may know that your society is doomed.

It's the person who would sell his soul for a nickel, who is loudest in proclaiming his hatred of money.

Freedom (n.): To ask nothing. To expect nothing. To depend on nothing.

The moral cannibalism of all hedonist and altruist doctrines lies in the premise that the happiness of one man necessitates the injury of another.

There are no little people in America. There are only people, equal before the law, yearning to breathe free and wanting to achieve the best within them.

Toohey: "Mr. Roark, we're alone here. Why don't you tell me what you think of me? In any words you wish. No one will hear us." Roark: "But I don't think of you.