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"Have you felt it too? Have you seen how your best friends love everything about you- except the things that count? And your most important is nothing to them; nothing, not even a sound they can recognize."
"A building has integrity just like a man. And just as seldom."
"You know what you are actually in love with? Integrity. The impossible. The clean, consistent, reasonable, self-faithful, the all-of-one-style, like a work of art."
"Those who say theory and practice are two unrelated realms are fools in one and scoundrels in the other."
"The world is perishing from an orgy of self-sacrificing."
"The genius must have his freedom and his independence."
"A free mind and a free market are corollaries."
"She looked at the crowd and she felt simultaneously astonishment that they should stare at her when this event was so personally her own that no communication about it was possible and a sense of fitness that they should be here that they should want to see it. Because the sight of an achievement was the greatest gift a human being could offer to others."
"The code of competence is the only system of morality that's on a gold standard."
"He had a big head and a face so ugly it became almost fascinating."
"No man may initiate the use of physical force against others. No man-or group or society or government-has the right to assume the role of a criminal and initiate the use of physical compulsion against any man. Men have the right to use physical force only in retaliation and only against those who initiate its use. The ethical principle involved is simple and clear-cut: it is the difference between murder and self-defense."
"When I die, I hope to go to Heaven, whatever the Hell that is."
"All life is a purposeful struggle, and your only choice is the choice of a goal."
"Just as man can't exist without his body, so no rights can exist without the right to translate one's rights into reality, to think, to work and keep the results, which means: the right of property."
"Do you know the hallmark of the second-rater? It's resentment of another man's achievement."
"Without property rights, no other rights are possible."
"People don't want to think. And the deeper they get into trouble, the less they want to think. But by some sort of instinct, they feel that they ought to and it makes them feel guilty. So they'll bless and follow anyone who gives them a justification for not thinking. Anyone who makes a virtue - a highly intellectual virtue - out of what they know to be their sin, their weakness and their guilt."
"Men have died in torture chambers, on the stake, in concentration camps, in front of firing squads, rather than renounce their convictions. The appeaser renounces his under the pressure of a frown on a vacant face."
"The Middle Ages were an era of mysticism, ruled by blind faith and blind obedience to the dogma that faith is superior to reason. The Renaissance was specifically the rebirth of reason, the liberation of man's mind, the triumph of rationality over mysticism - a faltering, incomplete, but impassioned triumph that led to the birth of science, of individualism, of freedom."
"Love is our response to our highest values. Love is self-enjoyment. The noblest love is born out of admiration of another's values."