Ayn Rand

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

I swear, by my life and my love of it, that I will never live for the sake of another man, nor ask another man to live for mine. ”

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. ”

Achieving life is not the equivalent of avoiding death. ”

Achievement of your happiness is the only moral purpose of your life, and that happiness, not pain or mindless self-indulgence, is the proof of your moral integrity, since it is the proof and the result of your loyalty to the achievement of your values. ”

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

A desire presupposes the possibility of action to achieve it; action presupposes a goal which is worth achieving. ”

Government 'help' to business is just as disastrous as government persecution... the only way a government can be of service to national prosperity is by keeping its hands off. ”

The only power any government has is the power to crack down on criminals. Well, when there aren't enough criminals, one makes them. One declares so many things to be a crime that it becomes impossible for men to live without breaking laws. ”

To arrive at a contradiction is to confess an error in one's thinking; to maintain a contradiction is to abdicate one's mind and to evict oneself from the realm of reality. ”