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Collectivism does not preach sacrifice as a temporary means to some desirable end. Sacrifice is its end---sacrifice as a way of life.

Collectivism cannot win. It can only destroy.

If one wishes to cure a dying world, one has to start with moral and philosophical principles. Nothing less will do.

Evil philosophies are systems of rationalization.

Art brings man's concepts to the perceptual level of his consciousness and allows him to grasp them directly, as if they were percepts.

Americans were the first to understand that wealth has to be created. The words "to make money" hold the essence of human morality.

If "desire" is the ethical standard, then one man's desire to produce and another man's desire to rob him have equal ethical validity.

If one's actions are honest, one does not need the predated confidence of others, only their rational perception.

Never think of pain or danger or enemies a moment longer than is necessary to fight them.

The truly and deliberately evil men are a very small minority; it is the appeaser who unleashes them on mankind; it is the appeaser's intellectual abdication that invites them to take over.

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.

You who claim that fear and joy are incentives of equal power-and secretly add that fear is the more "practical"-you do not wish to live, and only fear of death still holds you to the existence you have damned.

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.

The new wilderness to reclaim is philosophy, now all but deserted, with the weeds of prehistoric doctrines rising again to swallow the ruins. To support a culture, nothing less than a new philosophical foundation will do.

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 doesn't regard any moment as cut off from the context of the rest of his life & 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.

Humility is not a recognition of one's failings, but a rejection of morality. "I am no good" is a statement that may be uttered only in the past tense. To say: "I am no good" is to declare: "--and I never intend to be any better."

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.

The Antitrust laws - an unenforceable, uncompilable, unjudicable mess of contradictions were created and upheld by the "conservatives," as a grim monument to their lack of political philosophy, of economic knowledge and of any concern with principles.

Nothing can corrupt and disintegrate a culture or a man's character as thoroughly as does the precept of moral agnosticism, the idea that one must never pass moral judgment on others, that the good consists of never distinguishing good from evil.

The self is your mind; self-esteem is reliance on one's power to think.

There's only one form of human depravity--the man without a purpose.

Racism invalidates the specific attribute which distinguishes man from all other living species: his rational faculty.

The political philosophy of collectivism is based on a view of man as a congenital incompetent, a helpless, mindless creature who must be fooled and ruled by a special elite with some unspecified claim to superior wisdom and a lust for power.

A viler evil than to murder a man, is to sell him suicide as an act of virtue. A viler evil than to throw a man into a sacrificial furnace, is to demand he leap in, of his own will, and that he build the furnace, besides.