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It's the person who would sell his soul for a nickel, who is loudest in proclaiming his hatred of money - and he has good reason to hate it.

To say 'I love you' one must know first how to say the 'I'.

From Plato's REPUBLIC onward, all statist-collectivists have looked longingly up at an ant hill as at a social ideal to be reached.

Mankind's tragedy lies in the fact that
altruism, the vicious moral code men have accepted, destroys them by means of the best within them

It is with the study of man, not of the loose aggregate known as a "community", that any science of the humanities has to begin.

Emotions are inherent in your nature, but their content is dictated by your mind.

The words "to make money" hold the essence of human morality.

Contradictions do not exist. Whenever you think you are facing a contradiction, check your premises. You will find that one of them is wrong.

The man-worshippers, in my sense of the term, are those who see man's highest potential and strive to actualize it. The man-haters are those who regard man as a helpless, depraved, contemptible creature and struggle never to let him discover otherwise.

When I disagree with a rational man, I let reality be our final arbiter; if I am right, he will learn; if I am wrong, I will; one of us will win, but both will profit.

Anyone who fights for the future, lives in it today.

Concrete problems cannot even be grasped, let alone judged or solved, without reference to abstract principles.

There are no evil thoughts except one: the refusal to think.

A rational man sees his interests in terms of a lifetime and selects his goals accordingly. He does not regard any moment as cut off from the context of the rest of his life, and he allows no conflicts between his short-range and long-range interests.

A rational man does not become his own destroyer by pursuing a desire today which wipes out all his values tomorrow.

There is no such dichotomy as "human rights" versus "property rights." No human rights can exist without property rights.

Since material goods are produced by the mind and effort of individual men, and are needed to sustain their lives, if the producer does not own the result of his effort, he does not own his life.

By elevating the issue of helping others into the central and primary issue of ethics, altruism has destroyed the concept of any authentic benevolence or good will among men.

by discussion, persuasion and voluntary, uncoerced agreement.

The precondition of a civilized society is the barring of physical force from human relationships--thus establishing the principle that if men wish to deal with one another, they may do so only by means of reason:

Those who start by saying: "It is selfish to pursue your own wishes, you must sacrifice them to the wishes of others", end up by saying: "It is selfish to uphold your convictions, you must sacrifice them to the convictions of others."

The most selfish of all things is the independent mind that recognizes no authority higher than its own and no value higher than its judgment of truth.

The men who are not interested in philosophy need it most urgently: they are most helplessly in its power. They absorb its principles from the cultural atmosphere around them - from schools, colleges, books, magazines, newspapers, movies, television, etc.

When men abandon reason, physical force becomes their only means of dealing with one another and of settling disagreements.

The creator's concern is the conquest of nature. The parasite's concern is the conquest of men.

It stands to reason that where there's sacrifice, there's someone collecting the sacrificial offerings. Where there's service, there's someone being served. The man who speaks to you of sacrifice, speaks of slaves and masters. And intends to be the master.

Any man who's afraid of hiring the best ability he can find, is a cheat who's in a business where he doesn't belong.

The code of competence is the only system of morality that's on a gold standard.

Life is a value to be bought and thinking is the only coin noble enough to buy it.

A man who struggles not to acknowledge that evil is evil, finds it increasingly dangerous to acknowledge that the good is the good.