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Of what use is a theory which cannot be applied to practice?

The proof of an achieved self-esteem is your soul's shudder of contempt and rebellion against the role of a sacrificial animal.

Man identifies and integrates the facts of reality by means of concepts.

A concept is a mental integration of two or more units possessing the same distinguishing characteristics, with their particular measurements omitted.

A man's self-interest is not to be determined by his arbitrary wishes or whims, but by the principles of an objective moral code.

The man who speaks to you of sacrifice, speaks of slaves and masters. And intends to be the master.

There is only one antidote to racism: the philosophy of individualism and its politico-economic corollary: laissez-faire capitalism.

Capitalism is not the system of the past; it is the system of the future - if mankind is to have a future.

The world you desired can be won, it exists, it is real, it is possible, it's yours.

If an heir is equal to his money, it serves him; if not, it destroys him.

The moral justification of capitalism lies in the fact that it is the only system consonant with man's rational nature.

You can avoid reality, but you cannot avoid the consequences of avoiding reality.

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.

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

Happiness is not the satisfaction of whatever irrational wishes you might blindly attempt to indulge.

Run for your life from any man who tells you that money is evil. That sentence is the leper's bell of an approaching looter.

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

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

What you owe yourself is to work for your living; what you owe your neighbor is not to interfere with his work.

The freedom of speech of private individuals includes the right not to agree, not to listen and not to finance one's own antagonists.

"There are no absolutes," they chatter, blanking out the fact that they are uttering an absolute.

Money is only a tool. It will take you wherever you wish, but it will not replace you as the driver.

No coercive monopoly has ever been or ever can be established by means of free trade on a free market.

In a civilized society, force may be used only in retaliation, and only against those who initiate its use.

An attempt to gain a value by deceiving the mind of others is an act of raising your victims to a position higher than reality.

When opposite basic principles are clearly and openly defined, it works to the advantage of the rational side.

When men abandon reason, they find not only that their emotions cannot guide them, but that they can experience no emotions save one: terror.

I don't have any faith in anything or anybody, I never have had and never will have. I go by facts and reason.

A creative man is motivated by the desire to achieve, not by the desire to beat others.

Freedom is the fundamental requirement of man's mind.