You cannot convert others to your ideas, if you have no consistent, logical arguments and proofs to offer.
Capitalism is the only system that functions in a way which rewards rationality and penalizes all forms of irrationality, including racism.
Only those who produce, not those who consume, can ever be anybody's market.
It is only the concept of "Life" that makes the concept of "Value" possible. It is only to a living entity that things can be good or evil.
To rest one's case on *faith* means to concede that reason is on the side of one's enemies---that one has no rational arguments to offer.
Rights are conditions of existence required by man's nature for his proper survival.
The virtue involved in helping those one loves is not "selflessness" or "sacrifice," but integrity.
An honest man does not desire until he has identified the object of his desire.
If you do not fight for your own ideas, you have no right to blame the ideas of others, nor to complain.
Every government interference in the economy consists of giving an unearned benefit, extorted by force, to some men at the expense of others.
No action could be lower or more futile than for one person to throw upon another the burden of his abdication of choice.
Inflation is not caused by the actions of private citizens, but by the government: by deficit spending.
I win by means of nothing but logic and I surrender to nothing but logic.
Evil, not value, is an absence and a negation; evil is impotent and has no power but that which we let it extort from us.
A right does not include the material implementation of that right by other men.
The social recognition of the connection between man's survival and his use of reason is the concept of individual rights.
A rational mind does not sacrifice its knowledge, its view of the truth, to anyone's opinions, threats, wishes, plans, or "welfare".
There is only one institution that can arrogate to itself the power legally to trade by means of rubber checks: the government.
Moral values are the motive power of a man's actions.
Your emotions are estimates of that which furthers your life or threatens it, lightning calculators giving you a sum of your profit or loss.
Logic is the art of reasoning correctly about observed facts--but not of creating the facts. Logic presupposes existence.
In any encounter with collectivists it is always the acceptance of altruism as an ideal not to be questioned that defeats us.
The clause giving Congress the power to regulate interstate commerce is one of the major errors in the Constitution.
There may be "gray" men, but there can be no "gray" moral principles. Morality is a code of black and white.
The only value men can offer me is the work of their mind.
