She had won the battle against her memories. But one form of torture remained, untouched by the years, the torture of the word "why?

My happiness is not the means to any end. It is the end. It is its own goal. It is its own purpose.

Every government interference in the economy consists of giving an unearned benefit, extorted by force, to some men at the expense of others.

Don't think. Believe. Trust your heart, not your brain. Don't think. Feel. Believe.

The word 'We' is as lime poured over men, which sets and hardens to stone, and crushes all beneath it, and that which is white and that which is black are lost equally in the grey of it. It is the word by which the depraved steal the virtue of the good, by which the weak steal the might of the strong, by which the fools steal the wisdom of the sages.

When personal judgment is inoperative (or forbidden), men's first concern is not how to choose, but how to justify their choice

[Altruism] is a moral system which holds that man has no right to exist for his own sake, that service to others is the sole justification of his existence, and that self-sacrifice is his highest moral duty, value and virtue. This is the moral base of collectivism, of all dictatorships.