Have you ever felt the longing for someone you could admire? For something, not to look down at, but up to?

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

And no one rose to ask the question: Good?-by what standard?John Galt.

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.

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.

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