I hope you will understand my hesitation in writing to one whom I admire as the greatest representative of a philosophy to which I want to dedicate m… - Ayn Rand

There is no affirmation without the one who affirms. in this sense, everything to which you grant your love is yours

Economic power is exercised by means of a positive, by offering men a reward, an incentive, a payment, a value; political power is exercised by means of a negative, by the threat of punishment, injury, imprisonment, destruction. The businessman's tool is values; the bureaucrat's tool is fear.

A crime is the violation of the right(s) of other men by force (or fraud). It is only the initiation of physical force against others- i.e., the recourse to violence- that can be classified as a crime in a free society (as distinguished from a civil wrong). Ideas, in a free society, are not a crime- and neither can they serve as the justification of a crime.