Ayn Rand

In a system of full capitalism, there should be (but, historically, has not yet been) a complete separation of state and economics, in the same way and for the same reasons as the separation of state and church.

Everyone has the right to make his own decisions, but none has the right to force his decision on others.

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

He stepped to the window and pointed to the skyscrapers of the city. He said that we had to extinguish the lights of the world, and when we would see the lights of New York go out, we would know that our job was done.

Fear walks through the City, fear without name, without shape. All men feel it and none dare to speak.

A man’s spirit is his self. That entity which is his consciousness. To think, to feel, to judge, to act are functions of the ego.