Every aspect of Western culture needs a new code of ethics - a rational ethics - as a precondition of rebirth.

If the truth shall kill them, let them die.

Potentially, a government is the most dangerous threat to man's rights: it holds a legal monopoly on the use of physical force against legally disarmed victims.

The smallest minority on earth is the individual. Those who deny individual rights cannot claim to be defenders of minorities.

The truth is not for all men, but only for those who seek it.

When you see corruption being rewarded and honesty becoming a self-sacrifice, you may know that your society is doomed

We can evade reality, but we cannot evade the consequences of evading reality

So you think that money is the root of all evil. Have you ever asked what is the root of all money?

You can ignore reality, but you can't ignore the consequences of ignoring reality.

But I don't think of you. - Howard Roark

Money is only a tool. It will take you wherever you wish, but it will not replace you as the driver.

That's all right, " she told him. "I can manage. I can sleep outside just fine."Four pairs of eyes looked at her with a distinctly male skepticism.

I mean, whatever kills you kills you, and your death is authentic no matter how you die.

Style, in its finest sense, is the last acquirement of the educated mind; it is also the most useful. It pervades the whole being.

You have to care about how good you are and how good you feel, but not about how good people think you are or how good people think you look.

To create is to relate. We trust in the artist in everybody to make his own connections, his own juxtapositions.

It [Thanksgiving] was founded by the Puritans to give thanks for bein' preserved from the Indians, an' we keep it to give thanks we are preserved from the Puritans.

Victory smiles upon those who anticipate the change in the character of war, not upon those who wait to adapt themselves after the changes occur.

What other creature, besides the lion, the tiger, and the whale, can answer Creation in its own language?

All things change, and you yourself are constantly wasting away. So also is the universe.

I have never seen the slightest scientific proof of the religious ideas of heaven and hell, of future life for individuals, or of a personal God.