On hearing such notions as “The whole of creation is for man” and “The world is given to all”, a man would grasp that these are equivocations which evade the question of what is necessary to make use of natural resources. He would know that nothing is given to him, that the transformation of raw materials into human goods requires a process of thought and labor, which some men will perform and others will not—and that, in justice, no man can have a primary right to the goods created by the thought and labor of others.

- Ayn Rand. Capitalism: The Unknown Ideal (1966).