There is no such dichotomy as 'human rights' versus 'property rights.' No human rights can exist without property rights.

There can be no justification for choosing any part of that which one knows to be evil.

It does not matter that only a few in each generation will grasp and achieve the full reality of man's proper stature-and the rest will betray it. It is those few that move the world and give life its meaning-and it is those few that I have always sought to address. The rest are no concern of mine; it is not me or "The Fountainhead" that they will betray: it is their own souls.

People are not embracing collectivism because they have accepted bad economics. They are accepting bad economics because they have embraced collectivism.

Why do they always teach us that it's easy and evil to do what we want and that we need discipline to restrain ourselves? It's the hardest thing in the world--to do what we want. And it takes the greatest kind of courage. I mean, what we really want.

I think, therefore I'll think.

Believing in fate produces fate. Believing in freedom will create infinite possibilities.