Morality is a code of black and white. When and if men attempt a compromise, it is obvious which side will necessarily lose and which will necessarily profit.

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

Isn’t that the way God works? She’d thought. He takes the things in our lives that are ugly, disgusting, and downright wicked, and transforms them into something magnificent.

It's not right for one friend to do all the giving and the other to do all the taking: that's not read friendship.

Dancing to the sounds of trees and stones and slow minutes ticking in our hearts and bones.

No one should be required to see America for the first time.

War is when the government tells you who the bad guy is. Revolution is when you decide that for yourself.

What is the difference between a taxidermist and a tax collector? The taxidermist takes only your skin.

It is one of the ironies of biographical art that some details are more relevant than others, and many details have no relevance at all.

You can't change what you don't understand.

Once I've written a song, I sometimes refine them.

You can't embrace your whole life if you're shut down. I found out that I can't just run away and shut down. I'm losing the rest of my life doing that.