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A slogan or precept should be applied and observed literally, concretely, consistently, in every instance which it covers--or not at all.

A free society is governed by objective laws based on objective moral principles.

Love, friendship, respect, admiration are the emotional response of one man to the virtues of another.

Slavery is slavery, and its purpose does not change its nature.

That which is not worth contemplating in life, is not worth re-creating in art.

No man or mystical elite can hold a whole society subjugated to their arbitrary assertions, edicts and whims, without the use of force.

Cognition precedes communication; the necessary precondition of communication is that one have something to communicate.

Do not doubt the existence of integrity such as Roark's. It exists in every person who chooses to make it exist.

If by your own honest standards, you find your writing good -- you are a success. The rest is secondary and incidental.

One cannot force oneself to feel an emotion contrary to the facts with which one is dealing.

No one's happiness but my own is in my power to achieve or to destroy.

The present state of the world is not the proof of philosophy's impotence, but the proof of philosophy's power.

The good of America was made possible precisely by the fact that it was not forced on anyone as a moral goal or duty.

A sense of life is not a substitute for explicit knowledge.

The man who damns money has obtained it dishonorably; the man who respects it has earned it.

The source of man's rights is not divine law or congressional law, but the law of identity. A is A---and Man is Man.

My fundamental definition of evil is the action of damning the good for being the good.

My fundamental definition of evil is the action of damning the good for being the good.

Moral neutrality necessitates a progressive sympathy for vice and a progressive antagonism to virtue.

No advocate of the free mind can claim the right to force the minds of others.

Men can learn from one another, but learning requires a process of thought on the part of every individual student.

Paper money is a check drawn by legal looters upon an account which is not theirs: upon the virtue of the victims

If a man is compelled to work against his will for one minute or one second, for any cause whatsoever--that is involuntary servitude.

Any attempt to act for the 'good of others' is a piece of vicious impertinence.

I never found beauty in longing for the impossible and never found the possible to be beyond my reach.

From her start, America was torn by the clash of her political system with the altruist morality.

In any compromise between good and evil, it is only evil that can profit.

All the reasons which make the initiation of physical force an evil, make the retaliatory use of physical force a moral imperative.

Money is a living power that dies without its root. Money will not serve the mind that cannot match it.

That which is an end in itself does not serve anything. That which serves is the means to something which is the end.