The question isn't who is going to let me; it's who is going to stop me.

Individual rights are not subject to a public vote; a majority has no right to vote away the rights of a minority; the political function of rights is precisely to protect minorities from oppression by majorities (and the smallest minority on earth is the individual).

There are two sides to every issue: one side is right and the other is wrong, but the middle is always evil.

The man who lets a leader prescribe his course is a wreck being towed to the scrap heap.

Every man builds his world in his own image. He has the power to choose, but no power to escape the necessity of choice.

Potentially, a government is the most dangerous threat to man's rights: it holds a legal monopoly on the use of physical force against legally disarmed victims.

It only stands to reason that where there's sacrifice, there's someone collecting the sacrificial offerings. Where there's service, there is someone being served. The man who speaks to you of sacrifice is speaking of slaves and masters, and intends to be the master.

Run for your life from any man who tells you that money is evil. That sentence is the leper's bell of an approaching looter.

Force and mind are opposites; morality ends where a gun begins.

I don't build in order to have clients. I have clients in order to build.

Achieving life is not the equivalent of avoiding death.

So you think that money is the root of all evil. Have you ever asked what is the root of all money?

The purpose of morality is to teach you, not to suffer and die, but to enjoy yourself and live.

If any civilization is to survive, it is the morality of altruism that men have to reject.

Money is the barometer of a society's virtue.

Love is the expression of one's values, the greatest reward you can earn for the moral qualities you have achieved in your character and person, the emotional price paid by one man for the joy he receives from the virtues of another.

Ask yourself whether the dream of heaven and greatness should be waiting for us in our graves - or whether it should be ours here and now and on this earth.

When I die, I hope to go to Heaven, whatever the Hell that is.

Throughout the centuries there were men who took first steps, down new roads, armed with nothing but their own vision.

When man learns to understand and control his own behavior as well as he is learning to understand and control the behavior of crop plants and domestic animals, he may be justified in believing that he has become civilized.

From the smallest necessity to the highest religious abstraction, from the wheel to the skyscraper, everything we are and everything we have comes from one attribute of man - the function of his reasoning mind.

God... a being whose only definition is that he is beyond man's power to conceive.

People create their own questions because they are afraid to look straight. All you have to do is look straight and see the road, and when you see it, don't sit looking at it - walk.

Upper classes are a nation's past; the middle class is its future.

Do not ever say that the desire to 'do good' by force is a good motive. Neither power-lust nor stupidity are good motives.

A building has integrity just like a man. And just as seldom.

Evil requires the sanction of the victim.

Man's unique reward, however, is that while animals survive by adjusting themselves to their background, man survives by adjusting his background to himself.

Rights are not a matter of numbers - and there can be no such thing, in law or in morality, as actions forbidden to an individual, but permitted to a mob.

Individual rights are the means of subordinating society to moral law.

To achieve, you need thought. You have to know what you are doing and that's real power.