» To achieve, you need thought. You have to know what you are doing and that's real power.
» Throughout the centuries there were men who took first steps, down new roads, armed with nothing but their own vision.
» Wealth is the product of man's capacity to think.
» If any civilization is to survive, it is the morality of altruism that men have to reject.
» Civilization is the progress toward a society of privacy. The savage's whole existence is public, ruled by the laws of his tribe. Civilization is the process of setting man free from men.
» The only purpose of education is to teach a student how to live his life-by developing his mind and equipping him to deal with reality. The training he needs is theoretical, i.e., conceptual. He has to be taught to think, to understand, to integrate, to prove. He has to be taught the essentials of the knowledge discovered in the past-and he has to be equipped to acquire further knowledge by his own effort.
» There can be no such thing, in law or in morality, as actions to an individual, but permitted to a mob.
» Force and mind are opposites; morality ends where the gun begins.
» Individual rights are the means of subordinating society to moral law.