If any civilization is to survive, it is the morality of altruism that men have to reject. – Ayn Rand
The only power any government has is the power to crack down on criminals. Well, when there arent 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
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
To achieve, you need thought. You have to know what you are doing and thats real power. – Ayn Rand
Its rather splendid to think of all those great men and women who appear to have presented symptoms that allow us to describe them as bipolar. Whether its Hemingway, Van Gogh… Robert Schumann has been mentioned… Virginia Woolf, Sylvia Plath… some of them with rather grim ends. – Stephen Fry