Racism is the lowest, most crudely primitive form of collectivism.

If the rest of them can survive only by destroying us, then why should we wish them to survive? . . . Nothing can make it moral to destroy the best. One can't be punished for being good. One can't be penalized for ability.

Dagny, we can never lose the things we live for. We may have to change their form at times, if we've made an error, but the purpose remains the same and the forms are ours to make.

The nation which once held the creed that greatness is achieved by production, is now told that it is achieved by squalor.

I don't want to see you. I don't like you. I don't like your face. You look like an insufferable egotist. You're impertinent. You're too sure of yourself. Twenty years ago I would have punched your face with the greatest of pleasure.

Money will not purchase happiness for the man who has no concept of what he wants.

Worry is a waste of emotional reserve".