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Lying and dishonesty never work - and it is a great human tragedy that people think dishonesty can work for a good motive.

It is not dishonest if one is unable to see a point at first glance. It is dishonest when one is unwilling to see it.

The most profoundly revolutionary achievement of the United States of America was the subordination of society to moral law.

A concession to the irrational invalidates one's consciousness and turns it from the task of perceiving to the task of faking reality.

Politics is not the cause, but the last consequence of philosophical ideas.

There can be no compromise on basic principles or on fundamental issues.

A secular political movement does not exclude religious people. A religious political movement does exclude nonreligious people.

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

I win by means of nothing but logic and I surrender to nothing but logic.

The advocates of altruism are motivated not by compassion for suffering, but by hatred for man's life.

Civilization is the progress toward a society of privacy. The savage's whole existence is public, ruled by the laws of his tribe.

The moral is the chosen, not the forced; the understood, not the obeyed. The moral is the rational, and reason accepts no commandments.

A man does not exist merely in order to earn a living; he earns a living in order to exist.

Ideas are the meaning of life, the only things that make a human life, as distinguished from an animal one.

A government is the means of placing the retaliatory use of physical force under objective control - i.e., under objectively defined laws.

An emotion as such tells you nothing about reality, beyond the fact that something makes you feel something.

Money is a tool of exchange, which can't exist unless there are goods produced and men able to produce them.

If any civilization is to survive, it is the morality of altruism that men will have to reject.

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

Economic power is not the same thing as political power - nor is its exercise a violation of the rights of others.

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.

When you have made evil the means of survival, do not expect men to remain good.

Definitions are the guardians of rationality, the first line of defense against the chaos of mental disintegration.

Howard Roark laughed.

Tribalism is a product of fear, and fear is the dominant emotion of any person, culture or society that rejects reason.

The first moral obligation of any spokesman, high or low, is to practice what he preaches.

All philosophical con games count on your using words as vague approximations.

Living in a society, instead of on a desert island, does not relieve a man of the responsibility of supporting his own life.

Socialism has been tried on every continent of the globe. In light of its results, it is time to question the motives of its advocates.

In any compromise between food and poison, it is only death that can win.