"the moratorium on brains..."

"...for the sake of pity, not justice, I endured ten years of self-torture. I placed pity above my own conscience, and this is the core of my guilt." -Hank Rearden (Ayn Rand, Atlas Shrugged)

"You should see the kind of human driftwood we're getting to fill the vacancies." -Eddie Willers

"But this - she thought- was man's moral code in the outer world, a code that told them to act on the premise of one another's weakness, deceit and stupidity, and this was the pattern of their lives, this struggle through a fog of the pretended and unacknowledged, this belief that facts are not solid or final, this state where, denying any form to reality, men stumble through life, unreal and unformed, and die having never been born...Her relief came from the knowledge that no battle was hard, no decision was dangerous where there was no soggy uncertainty, no shapeless evasion to encounter." -Dagny Taggart (Ayn Rand, Atlas Shrugged)

"No one's happiness but my own is in my power to achieve or to destroy." -John Galt

"If any part of your uncertainty is a conflict between your heart and your mind - follow your mind." -John Galt

"If you are not convinced, ignore our certainty. Don't be tempted to substitute our judgement for your own." -Akston

"Don't consider our interests or desires. You have no duty to anyone but yourself." -Francisco D'Aconia