Racism is the lowest, most crudely primitive form of collectivism. It is the notion of ascribing moral, social or political significance to a man’s genetic lineage-the notion that a man’s intellectual and characterologic al traits are produced and transmitted by his internal body chemistry.

In any compromise between food and poison, it is only death that can win. In any compromise between good and evil, it is only evil that can profit.

My philosophy, in essence, is the concept of man as a heroic being, with his own happiness as the moral purpose of his life, with productive achievement as his noblest activity, and reason as his only absolute.

"You were not born to be a second-hander." Howard Roark to Gail Wynand in "The Fountainhead"

To know one's own desires, their meaning and their costs requires the highest human virtue: rationality.

Why is it immoral for you to desire, but moral for others to do so? Why is it immoral to produce a value and keep it, but moral to give it away? And if it is not moral for you to keep a value, why is it moral for others to accept it? If you are selfless and virtuous when you give it, are they not selfish and vicious when they take it?

There are no white lies, there is only the blackest of destruction, and a white lie is the blackest of all.