Faith is the commitment of one's consciousness to beliefs for which one has no sensory evidence or rational proof. A mystic is a man who treats his feelings as tools of cognition. Faith is the equation of feeling with knowledge.

Censorship' is a term pertaining only to governmental action. No private action is censorship. No private individual or agency can silence a man or suppress a publication; only the government can do so. The freedom of speech of private individuals includes the right not to agree, not to listen and not to finance one's own antagonists.

Paper is a check drawn by legal looters upon an account which is not theirs: upon the virtue of the victims. Watch for the day when it bounces, marked: 'Account Overdrawn.'

Any group or "collective", large or small, is only a number of individuals. A group can have no rights other than the rights of its individual members.

There can be no justification for choosing any part of that which one knows to be evil.

I am opposed to all forms of control. I am for an absolute, laissez-faire, free, unregulated economy.

Do it first and feel about it afterwards.' - Dagny Taggart