Value is that which one acts to gain and/or keep. Virtue is the act by which one aims and/or keeps it.

For the first time since her return, she felt pain, a violent pain, but it made her feel alive, because it was worth feeling.

She was incapable of love for any object not of her own choice and she resented anyone's demand for it.

The verdict you pronounce upon the source of your livelihood is the verdict you pronounce upon your life.

If parasitism, favoritism, corruption, and greed for the unearned did not exist, a mixed economy would bring them into existence.

John Galt is Prometheus who changed his mind. After centuries of being torn by vultures in payment for having brought to men the fire of the gods, he broke his chains—and he withdrew his fire—until the day when men withdraw their vultures.

If, before undertaking some action, you must obtain the permission of society-you are not free, whether such permission is granted to you or not. Only a slave acts on permission. A permission is not a right.