"The right to life is the source of all rights - and the right to
property is their only implementation. Without property rights, no other
rights are possible. Since man has to sustain his life by his own effort,
the man who produces while others dispose of his product, is a slave".
"Freedom, in a political context, has only one meaning: the absence of
physical coercion. Intellectual freedom can not exist without political
freedom, political freedom can not exist without economic freedom; a free
mind and a free market are corollaries".
"There are two kinds of teachers of the Morality of Death: The Mystics
of Spirit and The Mystics of Muscle, whom you call the spiritualists and
the materialists, those who believe in consciousness without existence
and those who believe in existence without consciousness. Both demand
the surrender of your mind, one to their revelations, the other to their
reflexes".
Philosopher
& Novelist, Ayn Rand