The alleged short-cut to knowledge, which is faith, is only a short-circuit destroying the mind

Since there is no such entity as 'the public,' since the public is merely a number of individuals, the idea that 'the public interest' supersedes private interests and rights can have but one meaning: that the interests and rights of some individuals take precedence over the interests and rights of others.

The age of the skyscraper is gone. This is the age of the housing project. Which is always a prelude to the age of the cave.

I think that when in doubt about the truth of an issue, it's safer and in better taste to select the least numerous of the adversaries.

Happiness is not to be achieved at the command of emotional whims.

All depressions are caused by government interference and the cure is always offered to take more of the poison that caused the disaster. Depressions are not the result of a free economy.

Peter Keating: "Do you always have to have a purpose? Do you always have to be so damn serious? Can't you ever do things without reason, just like everybody else? You're so serious, so old. Everything's important with you. Everything's great, significant in some way, every minute, even when you keep still. Can't you ever be comfortable-and unimportant?" | Howard Roark: "No."