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Logic is the art of reasoning correctly about observed facts--but not of creating the facts. Logic presupposes existence.

In any encounter with collectivists it is always the acceptance of altruism as an ideal not to be questioned that defeats us.

The clause giving Congress the power to regulate interstate commerce is one of the major errors in the Constitution.

There may be "gray" men, but there can be no "gray" moral principles. Morality is a code of black and white.

The only value men can offer me is the work of their mind.

Freedom is the fundamental requirement of man's mind.

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.

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

All public projects are mausoleums, not always in shape, but always in cost.

The precept: "Judge not, that ye be not judged" is an abdication of moral responsibility.

Guilt is altruism's stock in trade, and the inducing of guilt is its only means of self-perpetuation.

I do not surrender my reason or deal with men who surrender theirs.

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

It is the men of reason who made it possible for the rule of the brute to work.

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.

Nothing should be an end in itself to man except his own life qua rational being and his own rational happiness.

The injunction "don't judge" is the ultimate climax of the altruist morality.

Art is not concerned with actual occurrences or events as such, but with their metaphysical significance to man.

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

A plant can obtain its food from the soil in which it grows. An animal has to hunt for it. Man has to produce it.

A person who exists only for the sake of his loved one is not an independent entity, but a spiritual parasite.

As there is no middle ground between freedom and compulsion, so there is no middle ground between capitalism and socialism.

Just as Kant's purpose was to corrupt and paralyze man's mind, so the egalitarians' purpose is to shackle and paralyze the men of ability.

Man is an indivisible entity, an integrated unit of two attributes: of matter and consciousness.

In an exchange society, in any trade of goods or services, there are direct beneficiaries, but they are not the motivation of the traders.

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.