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"There can be no compromise on moral principles. In any compromise between food and poison, it is only death that can win. In any compromise between good and evil, it is only evil that can profit." [Ayn Rand]

"Observe, in politics, that the term extremism has become a synonym of "evil," regardless of the content of the issue; the evil is not what you are extreme about, but that you are "extreme" - i.e., consistent." [Ayn Rand]

"Try to tell a Russian housewife, who trudges miles on foot in sub-zero weather in order to spend hours standing in line at a state store dispensing food rations, that America is defiled by shopping centers, expressways and family cars." [Ayn Rand]

"Economic power is exercised by means of a positive, by offering men a reward, an incentive, a payment, a value; political power is exercised by means of a negative, by the threat of punishment, injury, imprisonment, destruction. The businessman's tool is values; the bureaucrat's tool is fear." [Ayn Rand]

"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." [Ayn Rand]

"Men have been taught that it is a virtue to agree with others. But the creator is the man who disagrees. Men have been taught that it is a virtue to swim with the current. But the creator is the man who goes against the current. Men have been taught that it is a virtue to stand together. But the creator is the man who stands alone." [Ayn Rand]

"The only thing holy in Rome is the stories. They're full of holes." [Jordan Maxwell]

"A lie can travel halfway around the world while the truth is putting on its shoes." [Mark Twain]

"A lie has speed, but truth has endurance." [Edgar J. Mohn]

"If you tell the truth, you don't have to remember anything." [Mark Twain]

"If everyone is thinking alike, then somebody isn't thinking." [General George S. Patton]

"People do not like to think. If one thinks, one must reach conclusions. Conclusions are not always pleasant." [Helen Keller]

"That which you call your soul or spirit is your consciousness, and that which you call 'free will' is your mind's freedom to think or not, the only will you have, your only freedom, the choice that controls all the choices you make and determines your life and your character." [Ayn Rand]

"A functioning police state needs no police." [William S. Burroughs]

"The spread of evil is the symptom of a vacuum. Whenever evil wins, it is only by default: by the moral failure of those who evade the fact that there can be no compromise on basic principles." [Ayn Rand]

"The right to vote is a *consequence*, not a primary cause, of a free social system -- and its value depends on the constitutional structure implementing and strictly delimiting the voters' power; unlimited majority rule is an instance of the principle of tyranny." [Ayn Rand]

"Happiness is that state of consciousness which proceeds from the achievement of one's values. Pride is the recognition of the fact that you are your own highest value and, like all of man’s values, it has to be earned." [Ayn Rand]

"Death is insignificant and unimportant. Eternity is important and eternity is now. We aren't just corpses and graves when we die, we are not there. When this life is finished you're not there to say 'Oh, how terrible that I'm a corpse'. I will not die, the world will end." [Ayn Rand]

"The evil of the world is made possible by nothing but the sanction you give it." [Ayn Rand]

"Further, the process of transformation, even if it brings revolutionary change, is likely to be a long one, absent some catastrophic and catalyzing event like a new Pearl Harbor." [Project for a new American Century - 2000]

"Knowledge makes a man unfit to be a slave." [Frederick Douglass]

"If the American people ever allow private banks to control the issue of their currency, first by inflation, then by deflation the banks and the corporations which grow up around them will deprive the people of all property until their children wake up homeless on the continent their fathers conquered." [Thomas Jefferson]

"None are more hopeless enslaved than those who falsely believe they are free." [Goethe]

"Honesty is the recognition of the fact that the unreal is unreal and can have no value, that neither love nor fame nor cash is a value if obtained by fraud." [Ayn Rand]

"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 has no right to the product of his effort has no means to sustain his life. The man who produces while others dispose of his product, is a slave." [Ayn Rand]

"My philosophy, in essence, is the concept of man as a heroic being, with his own happiness as the moral purpose of his life, with productive achievement as his noblest activity, and reason as his only absolute." [Ayn Rand]

"If you shut up truth and bury it under the ground, it will but grow, and gather to itself such explosive power that the day it bursts through it will blow up everything in its way." [Zola, Emile]

"I can accept anything, except what seems to be the easiest for most people: the half-way, the almost, the just-about, the in-between." [Ayn Rand]

"The world began when I was born, and the world is mine to win." [Ayn Rand]

"Evil draws men together." [Aristotle]

"A friend to all is a friend to none." [Aristotle]

"The Argument from Intimidation is a confession of intellectual impotence." [Ayn Rand]

"Democracy arises out of the notion that those who are equal in any respect are equal in all respects; because men are equally free, they claim to be absolutely equal." [Aristotle]

"The worst form of inequality is to try to make unequal things equal." [Aristotle]

"Force and mind are opposites; morality ends where a gun begins." [Ayn Rand]

"It only stands to reason that where there's sacrifice, there's someone collecting the sacrificial offerings. Where there's service, there is someone being served. The man who speaks to you of sacrifice is speaking of slaves and masters, and intends to be the master." [Ayn Rand]

"To say "I love you" one must first be able to say the "I"." [Ayn Rand]

"Reason is not automatic. Those who deny it cannot be conquered by it. Do not count on them. Leave them alone." [Ayn Rand]

"There are two sides to every issue: one side is right and the other is wrong, but the middle is always evil." [Ayn Rand]

"The purpose of morality is to teach you, not to suffer and die, but to enjoy yourself and live." [Ayn Rand]

"So you think that money is the root of all evil. Have you ever asked what is the root of all money?" [Ayn Rand]

"The only power any government has is the power to crack down on criminals. Well, when there aren't enough criminals, one makes them. One declares so many things to be a crime that it becomes impossible for men to live without breaking laws." [Ayn Rand]

"Love is the expression of one's values, the greatest reward you can earn for the moral qualities you have achieved in your character and person, the emotional price paid by one man for the joy he receives from the virtues of another." [Ayn Rand]

"Individual rights are not subject to a public vote; a majority has no right to vote away the rights of a minority; the political function of rights is precisely to protect minorities from oppression by majorities (and the smallest minority on earth is the individual)." [Ayn Rand]

"They claim that they perceive a mode of being superior to your existence on this earth. The mystics of spirit call it 'another dimension,' which consists of denying dimensions. The mystics of muscle call it 'the future,' which consists of denying the present. To exist is to possess identity. What identity are they able to give to their superior realm? They keep telling you what it is not, but never tell you what it is. All their identifications consist of negating: God is that which no human mind can know, they say—and proceed to demand that you consider it knowledge—God is non-man, heaven is non-earth, soul is non-body, virtue is non-profit, A is non-A, perception is non-sensory, knowledge is non-reason. Their definitions are not acts of defining, but of wiping out." [Ayn Rand]

"Every man builds his world in his own image. He has the power to choose, but no power to escape the necessity of choice." [Ayn Rand]

"Every aspect of Western culture needs a new code of ethics - a rational ethics - as a precondition of rebirth." [Ayn Rand]

"Contradictions do not exist. Whenever you think you are facing a contradiction, check your premises. You will find that one of them is wrong." [Ayn Rand]

"I swear, by my life and my love of it, that I will never live for the sake of another man, nor ask another man to live for mine. " [Ayn Rand]

"Contradictions do not exist. Whenever you think you are facing a contradiction, check your premises. You will find that one of them is wrong." [Ayn Rand]

"I swear, by my life and my love of it, that I will never live for the sake of another man, nor ask another man to live for mine. " [Ayn Rand]

"Money demands that you sell, not your weakness to men's stupidity, but your talent to their reason." [Ayn Rand]

"A government is the most dangerous threat to man's rights: it holds a legal monopoly on the use of physical force against legally disarmed victims." [Ayn Rand]

"A creative man is motivated by the desire to achieve, not by the desire to beat others." [Ayn Rand]

"To achieve, you need thought. You have to know what you are doing and that's real power." [Ayn Rand]

"In any compromise between good and evil, it is only evil that can profit." [Ayn Rand]

"That which is outside the possibility of choice is also outside the province of morality." [Ayn Rand]

"In any compromise between good and evil, it is only evil that can profit." [Ayn Rand]

"That which is outside the possibility of choice is also outside the province of morality." [Ayn Rand]

"Every man is free to rise as far as he's able or willing, but the degree to which he thinks determines the degree to which he'll rise." [Ayn Rand]

"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." [Ayn Rand]

"There can be no such thing, in law or in morality, as actions forbidden to an individual, but permitted to a mob." [Ayn Rand]

"'Mediocrity' doesn't mean average intelligence, it means an average intelligence that resents and envies its betters." [Ayn Rand]

"If you don't know what's going on, if you don't know what someone is thinking or what someone is feeling, when you should, you have to use your words. You have to be very, very careful about the words you pick and how you use them and you have to be very sure of your definitions and you have to understand the fluidity of language, you have to understand that different people will talk to you in different ways and that different situations will call for a different set of words." [Emily Vaughn]

"At first, man was enslaved by the gods. But he broke their chains. Then he was enslaved by the kings. But he broke their chains. He was enslaved by his birth, by his kin, by his race. But he broke their chains. He declared to all his brothers that a man has rights which neither god nor king nor other men can take away from him, no matter what their number, for his is the right of man, and there is no right on earth above this right. And he stood on the threshold of the freedom for which the blood of the centuries behind him had been spilled." [Ayn Rand]

"I am Andrew Ryan, and I'm here to ask you a question. Is a man not entitled to the sweat of his brow? 'No!' says the man in Washington, 'It belongs to the poor.' 'No!' says the man in the Vatican, 'It belongs to God.' 'No!' says the man in Moscow, 'It belongs to everyone.' I rejected those answers; instead, I chose something different. I chose the impossible. I chose...Rapture, a city where the artist would not fear the censor, where the scientist would not be bound by petty morality, where the great would not be constrained by the small!" [Andrew Ryan (Bioshock)]

"I believe in no God, no invisible man in the sky. But there is something more powerful in each of us, a combination of our efforts, a great chain of industry that unites us. But it is only when we struggle in our own interests that the chain pulls society in the right direction. The chain is too powerful and too mysterious for any government to guide. Any man who tells you differently either has his hand in your pocket or a pistol to your neck." [Andrew Ryan (Bioshock)]

"What is the greatest lie ever created? What is the most vicious obscenity ever perpetrated on mankind? Slavery? The Holocaust? Dictatorship? No. It's the tool with which all that wickedness is built. Altruism." [Andrew Ryan (Bioshock)]

"What is the difference between a man and a parasite? A man builds, a parasite asks, 'Where's my share?' A man creates, a parasite says, 'What will the neighbors think?' A man invents, a parasite says, 'Watch out, or you might tread on the toes of God..." [Andrew Ryan (Bioshock)]

"Whenever anyone wants others to do their work they call upon their Altruism. 'Never mind your own needs,' they say, 'Think of the needs of... of whoever. Of the state. Of the poor. Of the Army, of the King. Of God.' The list goes on and on. How many catastrophes were launched with the words 'Think of yourself?' It's the king and country crowd who light the torch of destruction." [Andrew Ryan (Bioshock)]

"In 1919 I fled a county that had been traded in despotism for insanity. The Marxist Revolution simply traded one lie for another. Instead of one man, the Czar, owning the work of all the people, all the people owned the work of all of the people. And so I came to America; where a man could own his own work. Where a man could benefit from the brilliance of his own mind, the strength of his own muscles, the might of his own will." [Andrew Ryan (Bioshock)]

"I had thought I had left the Parasites of Moscow behind me. I thought I had left the Marxist Altruists to their collective farms and their 'Five Year Plans'. But as the German fools threw themselves on Hitler's sword for the good of the Reich, the Americans drank deeper and deeper of the Bolshevik poison, spoon fed to them by Roosevelt and his New Dealers." [Andrew Ryan (Bioshock)]

"And so I asked myself, 'In what county was there a place for men like me? Men who refused to say yes to the parasites and the doubters? Men who believed that work was sacred and property rights inviolate?' And then one day the happy answer came to me, my friends. There was no country for people like me. And that was the moment I decided to build one!" [Andrew Ryan (Bioshock)]

"In the end, what separates a man from a slave? Money? Power? No, a man chooses, a slave obeys." [Andrew Ryan (Bioshock)]

"If lyrics on records could produce the kinds of negative results that certain people claim they produce then take this example: Most of the records which are broadcasted on radio are about love. So if the lyrics on the radio would impressing our society what would we have here? Disneyland, but we don't." [Frank Zappa]

"The language and concepts contained herein are guaranteed not to cause eternal torment in the place where the guy with the horns and pointed stick conducts his business." [Frank Zappa]

"The essence of Christianity is told to us in the Garden of Eden history. The fruit that was forbidden was on the Tree of Knowledge. The subtext is, All the suffering you have is because you wanted to find out what was going on. You could be in the Garden of Eden if you had just kept your fucking mouth shut and hadn't asked any questions." [Frank Zappa]

"In every language, the first word after "Mama!" that every kid learns to say is "Mine!" A system that doesn't allow ownership, that doesn't allow you to say "Mine!" when you grow up, has - to put it mildly - a fatal design flaw." [Frank Zappa]

"It's fucking great to be alive, ladies and gentlemen, and if you do not believe it is fucking great to be alive, you better go now, because this show will bring you down so much." [Frank Zappa]

"If you wind up with a boring, miserable life because you listened to your mom, your dad, your teacher, your priest or some guy on TV telling you how to do your shit, then YOU DESERVE IT." [Frank Zappa]

"The only difference between a cult and a religion is the amount of real estate they own." [Frank Zappa]

"I believe that people have a right to decide their own destiny; people own themselves. I also believe that, in a democracy, government exists because (and only as long as) individual citizens give it a "temporary license to exist" - in exchange for a promise that it will behave itself. In a democracy you own the government - it doesn't own you. Along with this comes a responsibility to ensure that individual actions, in the pursuit of a personal destiny, do not threaten the well-being of others while the "pursuit" is in progress." [Frank Zappa]