A building has integrity, just as a man and just as seldom! It must be true to its own idea, have its own form, and serve its own purpose!

My morality, the morality of reason, is contained in a single axiom: existence exists - and in a single choice: to live.

Sacrifice is the surrender of that which you value in favor of which you dont

The moral justification of capitalism does not lie in the altruist claim that it represents the best way to achieve 'the common good.' It is true that capitalism does -- if that catch-phrase has any meaning -- but this is merely a secondary consequence. The moral justification for capitalism lies in the fact that it is the only system consonant with man's rational nature, that it protects man's survival qua man, and that its ruling principle is: justice

Unjust laws have to be fought ideologically; they cannot be fought or corrected by means of mere disobedience and futile martyrdom.

It's not that I don't suffer, it's that I know the unimportance of suffering. I know that pain is to be fought and thrown aside, not to be accepted as part of one's soul and as a permanent scar across one's view of existence.

Great men can't be ruled.