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

"Happiness is that state of consciousness which proceeds from the achievement of one's values." Ayn Rand

"Ask yourself whether the dream of heaven and greatness should be waiting for us in our graves - or whether it should be ours here and now and on this earth." Ayn Rand

"Force and mind are opposites; morality ends where a gun begins." Ayn Rand

"The man who lets a leader prescribe his course is a wreck being towed to the scrap heap." Ayn Rand

"Neither life nor happiness can be achieved by the pursuit of irrational whims. Just as man is free to attempt to survive by any random means, as a parasite, a moocher or a looter, but not free to succeed at it beyond the range of the moment—so he is free to seek his happiness in any irrational fraud, any whim, any delusion, any mindless escape from reality, but not free to succeed at it beyond the range of the moment nor to escape the consequences." Ayn Rand

"He is free to evade reality, he is free to unfocus his mind and stumble blindly down any road he pleases, but not free to avoid the abyss he refuses to see." Ayn Rand

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

"Power-lust is a weed that grows only in the vacant lots of an abandoned mind." Ayn Rand

"Learn to value yourself, which means: fight for your happiness." Ayn Rand

"Any alleged 'right' of one man, which necessitates the violation of the rights of another, is not and cannot be a right." Ayn Rand