Rand is, by far, my favorite author. My favorite quote from Atlas Shrugged, which I have memorized, is this:

"The moral is the chosen, not the forced -- the understood, not the obeyed. The moral is the rational, and reason accepts no commandments."

I like the above quote because it refutes the idea that morality is socially contrived. It says that if you know something to be immoral or wrong, then it is you who must avoid doing that thing even if society says that it is not wrong. The above quote lets you feel free to follow your conscience in self-regulation, and reject the idea that if the group tolerates something, it's OK for you too.

Are there people here who've noticed that the game BioShock is a satire of Atlas Shrugged? The main character of BioShock is Andrew Ryan... another character is literally called 'Atlas'