Ayn Rand

"The end does not justify the means. No one's rights can be secured by the violation of the rights of others." Ayn Rand

"I am not morally obligated to care more for a man than he cares for himself." Ayn Rand

"Wealth is the product of man's capacity to think." Ayn Rand

"When man learns to understand and control his own behavior as well as he is learning to understand and control the behavior of crop plants and domestic animals, he may be justified in believing that he has become civilized." Ayn Rand

"God... a being whose only definition is that he is beyond man's power to conceive." Ayn Rand

"I don't build in order to have clients. I have clients in order to build." Ayn Rand

"If any civilization is to survive, it is the morality of altruism that men have to reject." Ayn Rand

"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." Ayn Rand

"The purpose of morality is to teach you, not to suffer and die, but to enjoy yourself and live." Ayn Rand

"Man's unique reward, however, is that while animals survive by adjusting themselves to their background, man survives by adjusting his background to himself." Ayn Rand

"Defiance, not obedience, is the American's answer to overbearing authority." Ayn Rand

"Whoever claims the right to redistribute the wealth produced by others is claiming the right to treat human beings as chattel." Ayn Rand

"One loses everything when one loses one's sense of humor." Ayn Rand

"An honest man is one who knows that he can't consume more than he has produced." Ayn Rand