The attack on "selfishness" is an attack on man's self-esteem; to surrender one, is to surrender the other.

Any alleged 'right' of one man, which necessitates the violation of the rights of another, is not and cannot be a right.

In order to live, man must act; in order to act, he must make choices; in order to make choices, he must define a code of values; in order to define a code of values, he must know what he is and where he is – i.e. he must know his own nature (including his means of knowledge) and the nature of the universe in which he acts – i.e. he needs metaphysics, epistemology, ethics, which means: philosophy. He cannot escape from this need; his only alternative is whether the philosophy guiding him is to be chosen by his mind or by chance.

A rational man is guided by his thinking - by a process of Reason - not by his feelings and desires.

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.

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

Morality pertains only to the sphere of man's free will - only to those actions which are open to his choice.

The men of the press, who despised their own profession, did not know why they were enjoying it today. One of them, a young man with years of notorious success behind him and a cynical look of twice his age, said suddenly, 'I know what I'd like to be: I wish I could be a man who covers news!'

To be free, a man must be free of his brothers. That is freedom. This and nothing else.