More quotes by Ayn Rand

"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."
"Aristotle may be regarded as the cultural barometer of Western history. Whenever his influence dominated the scene, it paved the way for one of history's brilliant eras; whenever it fell, so did mankind."
"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."
"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."
"The smallest minority on earth is the individual. Those who deny individual rights cannot claim to be defenders of minorities."