The unphilosophical majority among men are the ones most helplessly dependent on their era's dominant ideas.

Each man must reach his own verdict, by weighing all the relevant evidence.

To save the world is the simplest thing in the world. All one has to do is think.

What one needs to know in order to appraise a man morally is not: what did his mother say or do when he was three? The proper question is: what does he say and do now?

To send a child to rot in the prison of Cuba for the alleged sake of his own well-being is criminal hypocrisy.

Ayn Rand held that art is a 're-creation of reality according to an artist's metaphysical value-judgements.' By its nature, therefore, a novel (like a statue or a symphony) does not require or tolerate an explanatory preface; it is a self-contained universe, aloof from commentary, beckoning the reader to enter, perceive, respond.

Unlike the Marxists, the Nazis did not advocate public ownership of the means of production. They did demand that the government oversee and run the nation's economy. The issue of legal ownership is secondary; what counts is the issue of control. Private citizens, therefore, may continue to hold titles to property-so long as the state res...erves to itself the unqualified right to regulate the use of their property.