Every man builds his world in his own image. He has the power to choose, but no power to escape the necessity of choice.
Ayn RandCapitalism is a social system based on the recognition of individual rights, including property rights, in which all property is privately owned.
Ayn RandTo the extent to which a man is rational, life is the premise directing his actions. To the extent to which he is irrational, the premise directing his actions is death.
Ayn RandBut I still wonder how it was possible, in those graceless years of transition, long ago, that men did not see whither they were going, and went on, in blindness and cowardice, to their fate. I wonder, for it is hard for me to conceive how men who knew the word "I," could give it up and not know what they lost. But such has been the story, for I have lived in the City of the damned, and I know what horror men permitted to be brought upon them.
Ayn Rand