Everything that isn't permitted by The Law is forbidden.
Do it first and feel about it afterwards.' - Dagny Taggart
But those who were young had no thought left for spring and those who still thought were not young any longer.
But there are people who'll try to hurt you through the good they see in you--knowing that it's the good, needing it and punishing you for it. Don't let it break you when you discover that.
But I don't think of you.(Howard Roark)
What you think is an illusion created by your glands your emotions and in the last analysis by the content of your stomach. That gray matter you're so proud of is like a mirror in an amusement park...
If I found a job, a project, an idea or a person I wanted-I'd have to depend on the whole world. Everything has strings leading to everything else. We're all so tied together. We're all in a net, the...
In the name of the best within you, do not sacrifice this world to those who are at its worst. In the name of the values that keep you alive, do not let your vision of people be distorted by the ugly,...
Do not ever say that the desire to 'do good' by force is a good motive. Neither power-lust nor stupidity are good motives.
Your moral code begins by damning man as evil, then demands that he practice a good which it defines as impossible for him to practice…It demands that he starts, not with a standard of value, but with...
Your eyes are as a flame, but our brothers have neither hope nor fire. Your mouth is cut of granite, but our brothers are soft and humble. Your head is high, but our brothers cringe. You walk, but our...
You don't know how hard I've tried to be left standing all by myself.
You can fake virtue for an audience. You can’t fake it in your own eyes.
What whip lashed them to their knees in shame and submission? The worship of the word We.
What is morality, she asked.Judgement to distinguish right and wrong, vision to see the truth, and courage to act upon it, dedication to that which is good, integrity to stand by the good at any price...
We cannot say what they meant, for there are no words for their meaning, but we know it without words and we knew it then.
To abstain from condemning a torturer, is to become an accessory to the torture and murder of his victims.
They say sound never dies, but travels on in space--what happens to a man's heartbeats?--so many of them in fifty-six years--could they be gathered again, in some sort of condenser, and put to use onc...
They professed to love him for some unknown reason and they ignored all the things for which he could wish to be loved.
There's nothing of any importance in life—except how well you do your work.