A creative man is motivated by the desire to achieve, not by the desire to beat others.
From Ayn Rand
Individual rights are not subject to a public vote; a majority has no right to vote away the rights of a minority; the political function of rights is precisely to protect minorities from oppression by majorities (and the smallest minority on earth is the individual).
Throughout the centuries there were men who took first steps, down new roads, armed with nothing but their own vision.
We are fast approaching the stage of the ultimate inversion: the stage where the government is free to do anything it pleases, while the citizens may act only by permission; which is the stage of the darkest periods of human history, the stage of rule by brute force.
Achievement of your happiness is the only moral purpose of your life, and that happiness, not pain or mindless self-indulgence, is the proof of your moral integrity, since it is the proof and the result of your loyalty to the achievement of your values.
Individual rights are the means of subordinating society to moral law.
The man who lets a leader prescribe his course is a wreck being towed to the scrap heap.
Civilization is the progress toward a society of privacy. The savage's whole existence is public, ruled by the laws of his tribe. Civilization is the process of setting man free from men.
Every man builds his world in his own image. He has the power to choose, but no power to escape the necessity of choice.
There are two sides to every issue: one side is right and the other is wrong, but the middle is always evil.
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