The right to life is the source of all rights -- and the right to property is their only implementation. Without property rights, no other rights are possible. Since man has to sustain his life by his own effort, the man who has no right to the product of his effort has no means to sustain his life. The man who produces while others dispose of his product, is a slave.
Ayn RandProductiveness is your acceptance of morality, your recognition of the fact that you choose to live.
Ayn RandDominique as Gail looks at her "... there is a stage of worship which makes the worshiper himself an object of reverence."
Ayn RandThose who tell you that man is unable to perceive a reality undistorted by his senses, mean that they are unwilling to perceive a reality undistorted by their feelings. "Things as they are" are things as perceived by your mind; divorce them from reason and they become "things as perceived by your wishes.
Ayn Rand