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.

"We are on strike, we, the men of the mind.We are on strike against self-immolation. We are on strike against the creed of unearned rewards and unrewarded duties. We are on strike against the dogma that the pursuit of one's happiness is evil. We are on strike against the doctrine that life is guilt."

Ayn Rand

"And, after all, you’ve got to live.”“Not that way,” said Roark."

Ayn Rand

"The only pride of her workday was not that it had been lived, but that it had been survived. It was wrong, she thought, it was viciously wrong that one should ever be forced to say that about any hour of one's life."

Ayn Rand

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

Ayn Rand

"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."

Ayn Rand

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

Ayn Rand