Value is that which one acts to gain and/or keep. Virtue is the act by which one aims and/or keeps it.
Ayn RandVolumes can be and have been written about the issue of freedom versus dictatorship, but, in essence, it comes down to a single question: do you consider it moral to treat men as sacrificial animals and to rule them by physical force?
Ayn RandThe purpose of the law is not to prevent a future offense, but to punish the one actually committed.
Ayn RandIndividual rights are not subject to a public vote; a majority has no right to vote away the rights of a minority.
Ayn RandJust as there is no such thing as a collective or racial mind, so there is no such thing as a collective or racial achievement. There are only individual minds and individual achievements-an d a culture is not the anonymous product of undifferentiate d masses, but the sum of the intellectual achievements of individual men.
Ayn Rand