A spirit, too, needs fuel. It can run dry.

Ask yourself why totalitarian dictatorships find it necessary to pour money and effort into propaganda for their own helpless, chained, gagged slaves, who have no means of protest or defense. The answer is that even the humblest peasant or the lowest savage would rise in blind rebellion, were he to realize that he is being immolated, not to some incomprehensible noble purpose, but to plain, naked human evil.

Money is the root of all good.

Whenever anyone accuses some person of being 'unfeeling,' he means that that person is just.

Political freedom cannot exist without economic freedom; a free mind and a free market are corollaries.

p.61 He [Roark] was usually disliked, from the first sight of his face, anywhere he went. His face was closed like the door of a safety vault; things locked in safety vaults are valuable; men did not care to feel that. He was a cold, disquieting presence in the room; his presence had a strange quality: it made itself felt and yet it made them feel that he was not there; or perhaps that he was and they weren't.

There are two sides to every issue: one side is right and the other is wrong, but the middle is always evil.