But the mind is an attribute of the individual. There is no such thing as a collective brain. There is no such thing as a collective thought. An agreement reached by a group of men is only a compromise or an average drawn upon many individual thoughts.

Money is only a tool. It will take you wherever you wish, but it will not replace you as the driver.

A 'mixed economy' is a society in the process of committing suicide.

Professional intellectuals are the voice of a culture and are, therefore, its leaders, its integrators and its bodyguards.

If a society is to be free, its government has to be controlled.

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.

What is greatness? I will answer: it is the capacity to live by the three fundamental values of John Galt: reason, purpose, self-esteem.