Just as man can't exist without his body, so no rights can exist without the right to translate one's rights into reality, to think, to work and keep the results, which means: the right of property.
The only power any government has is the power to crack down on criminals. Well, when there aren't enough criminals, one makes them. One declares so many things to be a crime that it becomes impossibl...
How did you do it? How did you manage to remain unmangled? By holding on to just one rule. Which? To place nothing-nothing-above the verdict of my own mind.
You have been the one encounter in my life that can never be repeated
Wasn't it evil to wish without moving- or to move without aim?
Toohey: Mr. Roark, we're alone here. Why don't you tell me what you think of me? In any words you wish. No one will hear us.Roark: But I don't think of you.
Things stood still, not a leaf trembled on the branches, while the sky slowly lost its color and became an expanse that looked like the spread of glowing water.
There can be no justification for choosing any part of that which one knows to be evil.
There can be no compromise on moral principles.
The walls are cracked and water runs upon them within threads without sound, black and glistening as blood.
The basic purpose of art is not to teach, but to show—to hold up to man a concretized image of his nature and his place in the universe.
The pleasure of being drunk is obviously the pleasure of escaping from the responsibility of consciousness. And so are the kind of social gatherings, held for no other purpose than the expression of h...
That's a cute sentence: the years to come. Why are you so sure they're coming?
She could not descend to an existence where her brain would explode under the pressure of forcing itself not to outdistance incompetence. She could not function to the rule of: Pipe down-keep down-slo...
Reason is not automatic. Those who deny it cannot be conquered by it
People don't want to think. And the deeper they get into trouble, the less they want to think. But by some sort of instinct, they feel that they ought to and it makes them feel guilty. So they'll bles...
Oh, but I am quite resigned to taking second place in the shadow of my husband. I am humbly aware that the wife of a great man has to be contented with reflected glory - don't you think so Miss Taggar...
Now look at me! Take a good look! I was born and I knew I was alive and I knew what I wanted. What do you think is alive in me? Why do you think I'm alive? Because I have a stomach and eat and digest...
No man can have a right to impose an unchosen obligation , an unrewarded duty or an involuntary servitude on another man.There can be no such thing as the right to enslave .
Never ask people. Not about your work. Don't you know what you want? How can you stand it, not to know?