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A building has integrity just like a man. And just as seldom.  
A creative man is motivated by the desire to achieve, not by the desir...  
A desire presupposes the possibility of action to achieve it; action p...  
A government is the most dangerous threat to man's rights: it holds a ...  
Achievement of your happiness is the only moral purpose of your life, ...  
Achieving life is not the equivalent of avoiding death.  
Art is too serious to be taken seriously.  
Civilization is the progress toward a society of privacy. The savage's...  
Contradictions do not exist. Whenever you think you are facing a contr...  
Every aspect of Western culture needs a new code of ethics - a rationa...  
Every man builds his world in his own image. He has the power to choos...  
Evil requires the sanction of the victim.  
Force and mind are opposites; morality ends where a gun begins.  
God... a being whose only definition is that he is beyond man's power ...  
Government "help" to business is just as disastrous as government pers...  
Happiness is that state of consciousness which proceeds from the achie...  
He had a big head and a face so ugly it became almost fascinating.  
He liked to observe emotions; they were like red lanterns strung along...  
I don't build in order to have clients. I have clients in order to bui...  
I swear, by my life and my love of it, that I will never live for the ...  
If any civilization is to survive, it is the morality of altruism that...  
If you ask me to name the proudest distinction of Americans, I would c...  
Individual rights are not subject to a public vote; a majority has no ...  
Individual rights are the means of subordinating society to moral law.  
It only stands to reason that where there's sacrifice, there's someone...  
Just as man can't exist without his body, so no rights can exist witho...  
Love is the expression of one's values, the greatest reward you can ea...  
Man is a being with free will; therefore, each man is potentially good...  
Money is only a tool. It will take you wherever you wish, but it will ...  
Money is the barometer of a society's virtue.  
Only the man who does not need it, is fit to inherit wealth, the man w...  
Reason is not automatic. Those who deny it cannot be conquered by it. ...  
Run for your life from any man who tells you that money is evil. That ...  
So you think that money is the root of all evil. Have you ever asked w...  
The ladder of success is best climbed by stepping on the rungs of oppo...   Success
The man who lets a leader prescribe his course is a wreck being towed ...  
The only power any government has is the power to crack down on crimin...  
The purpose of morality is to teach you, not to suffer and die, but to...  
The question isn't who is going to let me; it's who is going to stop m...  
The smallest minority on earth is the individual. Those who deny indiv...  
The worst guilt is to accept an unearned guilt.  
There can be no such thing, in law or in morality, as actions to an in...  
There is a level of cowardice lower than that of the conformist: the f...  
They proclaim that every man is entitled to exist without labor and, t...  
Throughout the centuries there were men who took first steps, down new...  
To achieve, you need thought. You have to know what you are doing and ...  
To say "I love you" one must first be able to say the "I."  
Upper classes are a nation's past; the middle class is its future.  
We are fast approaching the stage of the ultimate inversion: the stage...  
Wealth is the product of man's capacity to think.  
What is a demanding pleasure that demands the use of ones mind! Not in...  
When I disagree with a rational man, I let reality be our final arbite...  
When man learns to understand and control his own behavior as well as ...