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A man's sexual choice is the result and the sum of his fundamental convictions.

The man who produces while others dispose of his product, is a slave.

The layman's error, in regard to philosophy, is the tendency to accept consequences while ignoring their causes.

It is by his own individual ability and ambition that capitalism judges a man and rewards him accordingly.

To hold, as man's sin, a fact not open to his choice is a mockery of morality. To hold man's nature as his sin is a mockery of nature.

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

A group, as such, has no rights. A man can neither acquire new rights by joining a group nor lose the rights which he does possess.

You cannot convert others to your ideas, if you have no consistent, logical arguments and proofs to offer.

A man holds his property because it is his -- regardless of how many parasites claim that they need it more than he does.

That which is outside the possibility of choice is outside the province of morality.

A doctor should choose his profession for the sake of his own creative, scientific effort, not for the sake of service to others.

When a man declares: "Who am I to know?"---he is declaring: "Who am I to live?"

If men want to oppose war, it is statism that they must oppose.

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

Only when one has a selfish motive in mind, can one be of any service to others.

Errors of knowledge are not breaches of morality; no proper moral code can demand infallibility or omniscience.

The principle of individual rights is the only moral base of all groups or associations.

To laugh at the contemptible, is a virtue; to laugh at the good, is a...vice. Too often, humor is used as the camouflage of moral cowardice.

Whoever defends his own rights defends the rights of all.

I seek no values by means of evil, nor do I surrender my values to evil.

I do not care to be admired causelessly, emotionally, intuitively, instinctively--or blindly.

A trader does not squander his body as fodder or his soul as alms.

Automatic omniscience is what a whim-worshiper ascribes to his emotions.

If, in any given set of circumstances, any victory is possible at all, it is only reason that can win it.

If there is a philosophical Atlas who carries the whole of Western civilization on his shoulders, it is Aristotle.

A trader is a man who earns what he gets and does not give or take the undeserved.

The creator originates. The parasite borrows. The creator faces nature alone. The parasite faces nature through an intermediary.

This,...in every issue, is your basic moral choice: thinking or non-thinking, existence or non-existence, A or non-A, entity or zero.

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

Suffering as such is not a value; only man's fight against suffering is.