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When you clamor for public ownership of the means of production, you are clamoring for public ownership of the mind.

The vilest form of self-abasement and self-destruction is the subordination of your mind to the mind of another.

If concern with poverty and human suffering were the collectivists' motive, they would have become champions of capitalism long ago.

In any conflict between two men (or two groups) who hold the same basic principle, it is the more consistent one who wins.

Altruism holds death as its ultimate goal and standard of value.

What greater wealth is there than to own your life and to spend it on growing?

A blind follower is precisely what my philosophy condemns and what I reject. Objectivism is not a mystic cult.

Lobbying is the result and creation of a mixed economy - of government by pressure groups.

Individual rights are an absolute, not to be balanced or limited by anybody.

Competition is a by-product of productive work, not its goal.

Like any other value, love is not a static quantity to be divided, but an unlimited response to be earned.

Is man free? In mankind's history, capitalism is the only system that answers: Yes.

No concept man forms is valid unless he integrates it without contradiction into the total sum of his knowledge.

Tell me what a man finds sexually attractive and I will tell you his entire philosophy of life.

Do you know the hallmark of the second-rater? It's resentment of another man's achievement.

Money is not merely a tool of exchange. It is a tool of saving, which permits delayed consumption and buys time for future production.

Facts are the standard of truth or falsehood; it is by means of facts that we determine whether an idea of ours is true or false.

I shall choose friends among men, but neither slaves nor masters.

Reason & freedom are corollaries, & their relationship is reciprocal: when men are rational, freedom wins; when men are free, reason wins.

Infallibility is not a precondition of knowing what one does know, of firmness in one's convictions, and of loyalty to one's values.

Who sets the tone of a culture? A small handful of men: the philosophers. Others follow their lead, either by conviction or by default.

All that which is proper to the life of a rational being is the good; all that which destroys it is the evil.

I do not place my moral sanction upon a murderer's wish to kill me.

In a free society, one does not have to deal with those who are irrational. One is free to avoid them.

Man is not a lone wolf and he is not a social animal. He is a contractual animal.

A "whim" is a desire experienced by a person who does not know and does not care to discover its cause.

Pain is to be fought and thrown aside, not to be accepted as part of one's soul and as a permanent scar across one's view of existence.

Dependence breeds hatred. Only free men can afford to be benevolent. Only free men can love and respect one another.

The principle of using force only in retaliation against those who initiate its use, is the principle of subordinating might to right.

The man who does not value himself, cannot value anything or anyone.