I came here to say that I do not recognize anyone's right to one minute of my life. Nor to any part of my energy. Nor to any achievement of mine. No matter who makes the claim, how large their number or how great their need. I wished to come here and say that I am a man who does not exist for others." - Howard Roark
Ayn RandAn emotion as much tells you nothing about reality, beyond the fact that something makes you feel something.
Ayn RandIt is not as late as you think. It is merely early - in the age of the rebirth of individualism.
Ayn RandYou don't build for the way people live, but for the way they should live. I don't write about people as they are, but as they could be and should be.
Ayn RandIf parasitism, favoritism, corruption, and greed for the unearned did not exist, a mixed economy would bring them into existence.
Ayn RandLobbying' is the activity of attempting to influence legislation by privately influencing the legislators. It is the result and creation of a mixed economy-of government by pressure groups. Its methods range from mere social courtesies and cocktail-party or luncheon "friendships" to favors, threats, bribes, blackmail.
Ayn Rand