The essential characteristic of socialism is the denial of individual property rights.

To say 'I love you' one must first be able to say the 'I.'

Collectivism means the subjugation of the individual to a group - whether to a race, class or state does not matter. Collectivism holds that man must be chained to collective action and collective thought for the sake of what is called 'the common good'.

In order to be in control of your life, you have to have a purpose-a productive purpose.

She felt a board indifference toward the immediate world around her toward other children and adults alike. She took it as a regrettable accident to be borne patiently for a while, that she happened to be imprisoned among people who were dull. She had caught a glimpse of another world and she knew it existed somewhere, the world that had created trains, bridges, telegraph wires and signal lights winking in the night. She had to wait she thought, and grow up to that world. - Dagny Taggart

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

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