Civilization is the progress toward a society of privacy. The savages whole existence is public, ruled by the laws of his tribe. Civilization is the process of setting man free from men. – Ayn Rand
Throughout the centuries there were men who took first steps, down new roads, armed with nothing but their own vision. – 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
We are fast approaching the stage of the ultimate inversion: the stage where the government is free to do anything it pleases, while the citizens may act only by permission which is the stage of the darkest periods of human history, the stage of rule by brute force. – Ayn Rand