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Whoever claims the right to redistribute the wealth produced by others is claiming the right to treat human beings as chattel.

A sense of life is a pre-conceptual equivalent of metaphysics, an emotional, subconsciously integrated appraisal of man and of existence. It sets the nature of a man's emotional responses and the essence of his character.

Love, friendship, respect, admiration are the emotional response of one man to the virtues of another, the spiritual payment given in exchange for the personal, selfish pleasure which one man derives from the virtues of another man's character.

Art is a selective re-creation of reality according to an artist's metaphysical value-judgments. By a selective re-creation, art isolates and integrates those aspects of reality which represent man's fundamental view of himself and of existence.

There is one word - a single word - which can blast the morality of altruism out of existence and which it cannot withstand - the word "Why?"

Civilization is the progress toward a society of privacy. The savage's whole existence is public, ruled by the laws of his tribe. Civilization is the process of setting man free from men.

It is morally obscene to regard wealth as an anonymous, tribal product and to talk about "redistributing" it.

There are only two means by which men can deal with one another: guns or logic.

Credit is not a magic piece of paper that reverses cause and effect, and transforms consumption into a source of production.

Whatever you do, don't doubt yourself because of others.

It is not mere death that the morality of sacrifice holds out to you as an ideal, but death by slow torture.

When one acts on pity against justice, it is the good whom one punishes for the sake of the evil.

Altruism is impossible to man - impossible by the whole nature of the universe. Altruism is death and destruction.

The most important thing in life is never to surrender one's concept of what is right, what life could be and should be.

Most men spend their days struggling to evade three questions: Where am I? How do I know it? What should I do?

Productiveness is your acceptance of morality, your recognition of the fact that you choose to live.

There is nothing so naive as cynicism.

Nobody should be compelled to join a union, nor to bargain with a union, nor to remain at work if his union calls a strike.

Whoever defends his own rights defends the rights of all.

I am an atheist and I have only one religion: the sublime in human nature.

A trader does not ask to be paid for his failures, nor does he ask to be loved for his flaws.

In any collaboration between two men (or two groups) who hold different basic principles, it is the more evil or irrational one who wins.

As the populace puts it, 'idealism is not practical.' I say - nothing is practical, except idealism.

Whoever claims the right to redistribute the wealth produced by others is claiming the right to treat human beings as chattel.

A rational man does not indulge in wistful longings for ends divorced from means.

The symbol of all relationships among rational men, the moral symbol of respect for human beings, is the trader.

When unlimited and unrestricted by individual rights, a government is men's deadliest enemy.

There is, in fact, only one form of coercion: the initiation of physical force by one man or group against others.

Until the morality of altruism is blasted out of people's minds, nothing will save us from communism in one form or another.

The virtue involved in helping those one loves is not "selflessness" or "sacrifice," but integrity.