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Freedom Quotes by Ayn Rand

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Ayn Rand writes that freedom is a fight for personal rights, honor, and life. She contrasts self‑lessness with the need for individual liberty and argues that capitalism alone can turn those principles into practice. Her words also warn that socialism and tyranny share the same oppressive results.

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The degree of a country's freedom is the degree of its prosperity.

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Civilization is the process of setting man free from men.

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Believing in fate produces fate. Believing in freedom will create infinite possibilities.

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The man who produces while others dispose of his product is a slave.

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If a society is to be free, its government has to be controlled.

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Congress shall make no law abridging the freedom of production and trade...

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But Aristotle's philosophy was the intellect's Declaration of Independence.

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Freedom of association includes the freedom not to associate.

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I guard my treasures: my thoughts, my will, my freedom. And the greatest of these is freedom.

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“We alone, of the thousands who walk this earth, we alone in this hour are doing a work which has no purpose…

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“A right doesn't include the material implementation of that right by other men; it includes only the freedom to earn that implementation…

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Collectivism, as an intellectual power and a moral ideal, is dead. But freedom and individualism, and their political expression, capitalism, have not…

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In a fully free society, taxation-or, to be exact, payment for governmental services-would be voluntary.

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“I guard my treasures: my thought, my will, my freedom. And the greatest of these is freedom.”

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“If a man dies fighting for his own freedom, it is not a sacrifice: he is not willing to live as a…

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Remember that rights are moral principles which define and protect a man's freedom of action, but impose no obligations on other men.

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“What is my joy if all hands, even the unclean, can reach into it? What is my wisdom, if even the fools…

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The fortune my spirit is not to be blown into coins of brass and flung to the winds as alms for the…

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Do not keep silent when your own ideas and values are being attacked. If a dictatorship ever comes to this country, it…

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Freedom, in a political context, means freedom from government coercion. It does not mean freedom from the landlord, from the employer, or…

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That which you call your soul or spirit is your consciousness, and that which you call 'free will' is your mind's freedom…

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“There is no difference between the principles, policies and practical results of socialism—and those of any historical or prehistorical tyranny. Socialism is…

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“I shall remind you that"rights" are a moral principle defining and sanctioning a man's freedom of action in a social context, that…

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“Freedom? Do let’s stop talking about freedom. Freedom is impossible. Man can never be free of hunger, of cold, of disease, of…

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Dictatorship nations are outlaws. Any free nation had the right to invade Nazi Germany and, today, has the right to invade Soviet…

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These are the things before me. And as I stand here at the door of glory, I look behind me for the…

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“For our face and body were beautiful. Our face was not like the faces of our brothers, for we felt not pity…

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“Live and act within the limit of your knowledge and keep expanding it to the limit of your life. Redeem your mind…

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“If this is vise I want no virtue. ... I know what happiness is possible to me on earth. And my happiness…

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Under fascism, citizens retain the responsibilities of owning property, without freedom to act and without any of the advantages of ownership. Under…

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There can be no compromise between freedom and government controls; to accept 'just a few controls' is to surrender the principle of…

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Independence is the recognition of the fact that yours is the responsibility of judgment and nothing can help you escape it-that no…

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“Playboy: But you are interested in politics, or at least in political theory, aren’t you? Rand: Let me answer you this way:…

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“Since knowledge, thinking, and rational action are properties of the individual, since the choice to exercise his rational faculty or not depends…

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“The basic trouble with the modern world … is the intellectual fallacy that freedom and compulsion are opposites. To solve the gigantic…

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“Man cannot survive except through his mind. He comes on earth unarmed. His brain is his only weapon. The mind is an…

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“The greatest guilt of today is that of people who accept collectivism by moral default; the people who seek protection from the…

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To be free, a man must be free of his brothers. That is freedom. That and nothing else.

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The genius must have his freedom and his independence.

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“A man has the free will to think or not. If he does not, he takes what he gets.”

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This miracle of me is mine to own and keep, and mine to guard, and mine to use, and mine to kneel before.

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We are all brothers under the skin - and I, for one, would be willing to skin humanity to prove it.