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

That which exists possesses identity; he could keep it out of existence by refusing to identify it.

the worst wars are religious wars between sects of the same religion or civil wars between brothers of the same race.

Productiveness is your acceptance of morality, your recognition of the fact that you choose to live.

The great creators-the thinkers, the artists, the scientists, the inventors-stood alone against the men of their time.

But I don't think of you. - Howard Roark

Creation comes before distribution - or there will be nothing to distribute. The need of the creator comes before the need of any possible beneficiary. Yet we are taught to admire the second-hander who dispenses gifts he has not produced above the man who made the gifts possible. We praise an act of charity. We shrug at an act of achievement.