If a society is to be free, its government has to be controlled.

Man is the only living species that has the power to act as his own destroyer - and that is the way he has acted through most of his history.

Man's unique reward, however, is that while animals survive by adjusting themselves to their background, man survives by adjusting his background to himself.

If you agree with some tenets of Objectivism, but disagree with others, do not call yourself an Objectivist; give proper authorship credit for the parts you agree with

People create their own questions because they are afraid to look straight. All you have to do is look straight and see the road, and when you see it, don't sit looking at it - walk.

The sky is like a black sieve pierced by silver drops that tremble, ready to burst through.

The hardest thing to explain is the glaringly evident which everybody had decided not to see.