Force and mind are opposites; morality ends where a gun begins.

Errors of knowledge are not breaches of morality; no proper moral code can demand infallibility or omniscience.

Toohey: "Mr. Roark, we're alone here. Why don't you tell me what you think of me? In any words you wish. No one will hear us." Roark: "But I don't think of you.

I am only concerned with politics so I may see the day when I don't have to be concerned with politics.

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.

Every coercive monopoly was created by government intervention into the economy: by special privileges, such as franchises or subsidies, which closed the entry of competitors into a given field, by legislative action.

If one's actions are honest, one does not need the predated confidence of others.