The joke is on both of you. Your sanction is the only source of certainty he has.

She said 'no' to the words he spoke, and 'yes' to the voice that spoke them.

It does not matter that only a few in each generation will grasp and achieve the full reality of man's proper stature—and that the rest will betray it. It is those few that move the world and give life its meaning—and it is those few that I have always sought to address.

When Helen's father compliments Annie on the fact that she has taught Helen the rudiments of discipline, Annie, discouraged, answers: ". . . to do nothing but obey is—no gift, obedience without understanding is a—blindness, too.

No man can predict the time when others will choose to return to reason.

To say that that which was true in the 17th century cannot possibly be true today, because we travel in jet planes while they traveled in horse carts—is like saying that modern men do not need food, as men did in the past, because they are wearing trenchcoats and slacks, instead-of powdered wigs and hoop skirts.

She caught herself thinking: She's functioning well in an emergency, I'll be all right with her—and realized that she was thinking of herself.

There was no action she could take against the men of undefined thought, of unnamed motives, of unstated purposes, of unspecified morality. There was nothing she could say to them—nothing would be heard or answered. What were the weapons, she thought, in a realm where reason was not a weapon any longer?

Why, child, such things are to be decided only by you and my son.

Redeem your mind from the hockshops of authority.

Throughout his life, whenever he became convinced that a course of action was right, the desire to follow it had come automatically.

Man's mind is his basic tool of survival. Life is given to him, survival is not." stated by John Galt