I loathe your ideals because I know no worse injustice than the giving of the undeserved.

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?

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

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

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

We are like islands in the sea, separate on the surface but connected in the deep.

Perhaps the ultimate test of a leader is not what you are able to do in the here and now - but instead what continues to grow long after you're gone

When men do not forget what can be forgotten but forget what cannot be forgotten - that may be called true forgetting.

Force and not opinion is the queen of the world but it it opinion that uses the force.

... rarely if ever does one feel sure one knows enough to go ahead with much of anything new. You bank on faith and courage and the ability to learn on the job.

Though neglectful of their responsibility to protect science, scientists are increasingly aware of their responsibility to society.

Always be civil to the girls, you never know who they may marry' is a aphorism which has saved many an English spinster from being treated like an Indian widow.

I want to live happily in a world I don’t understand.

The most used appliance in our house is my 10-year-old son Leon's Xbox.

Promises controversy on a scale not seen since Samuel Huntington’s Clash of Civilizations sought to reframe a new world order.