Can you sacrifice a few? When those few are the best? Deny the best its right to the top--and you have no best left. What are your masses but millions of dull, shriveled, stagnant souls that have no thoughts of their own, no dreams of their own, no will of their own, who eat and sleep and chew helplessly the words others put into their brains? And for those you would sacrifice the few who know life, who are life? I loathe [Andrei] your ideals because I know no worse injustice than the giving of the undeserved. Because men are not equal in ability and one can't trust them as if they were.

The purpose of man's life...is to become an abject zombie who serves a purpose he does not know, for reasons he is not to question.

A Conformist is a man who declares, "It's true because others believe it" - but an Individualist is NOT a man who declares, "It's true because I believe it." An Individual declares, "I believe it because I see in reason that it is true.

Just as man can't exist without his body, so no rights can exist without the right to translate one's rights into reality, to think, to work and keep the results, which means: the right of property.

There were things in my past which I have not liked. But all the things of which I was proud will remain.

I worship individuals for their highest possibilities as individuals and I loathe humanity for its failure to live up to these possibilities.

Parties are intended to be celebrations, and celebrations should be only for those who have something to celebrate.