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

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

Now if you ask me, in conclusion, "Well, what, then should properly be done?" Obviously war, but I mean in regard to this issue I would say: Any way possible permission should be refused and if they go ahead and build it, the government should bomb it out of existence, evacuating it first, with no compensation to any of the property owners involved in this monstrosity.

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.

The more you learn, if you learn it properly, the more clear you become and the more you know.

Objectivism advocates reason as man's sole means of knowledge, and therefore, for the reasons I have already given, it is atheist. It denies any supernatural dimension presented as a contradiction of nature, of existence. This applies not only to God, but also to every variant of the supernatural ever advocated or to be advocated. In other words, we accept reality, and that's all.