Ayn Rand

"The man who speaks to you of sacrifice, speaks of slaves and masters. And intends to be the master." Ayn Rand

"Contradictions do not exist. Whenever you think you are facing a contradiction, check your premises. You will find that one of them is wrong." Ayn Rand

"The hardest thing to explain is the glaringly evident which everybody had decided not to see." Ayn Rand

"To achieve, you need thought. You have to know what you are doing and that's real power." Ayn Rand

"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." Ayn Rand

"Do not let your fire go out ... Do not let the Hero in your soul perish ... Check your road and the nature of your battle. The world you desired can be won. It exists, it is real, it is possible, it is yours." Ayn Rand

"Reason is not automatic. Those who deny it cannot be conquered by it. Do not count on them. Leave them alone." Ayn Rand

"Throughout the centuries there were men who took first steps, down new roads, armed with nothing but their own vision." Ayn Rand

"The worst guilt is to accept an unearned guilt." Ayn Rand

"If the truth shall kill them, let them die." Ayn Rand

"From the smallest necessity to the highest religious abstraction, from the wheel to the skyscraper, everything we are and everything we have comes from one attribute of man - the function of his reasoning mind." Ayn Rand

"To arrive at a contradiction is to confess an error in one's thinking; to maintain a contradiction is to abdicate one's mind and to evict oneself from the realm of reality." Ayn Rand

"If a society is to be free, its government has to be controlled." Ayn Rand

"Rights are not a matter of numbers - and there can be no such thing, in law or in morality, as actions forbidden to an individual, but permitted to a mob." Ayn Rand