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Capitalism Quotes by Ayn Rand

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Ayn Rand argues that capitalism rests on individual rights, not the sacrifice of the collective, and that it has lifted the poorest to new living standards. She claims that true freedom, individuality, and the pursuit of values thrive only under a free market, while altruism and socialism clash with its core.

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

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The concept of free competition enforced by law is a grotesque contradiction in terms.

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A free mind and a free market are corollaries.

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In a capitalist society, all human relationships are voluntary.

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It is futile to fight against, if one does not know what one is fighting for.

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The uncontested absurdities of today are the accepted slogans of tomorrow.

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Whoever claims the right to redistribute the wealth produced by others is claiming the right to treat human beings as chattel.

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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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I say that man is entitled to his own happiness and that he must achieve it himself. But that he cannot demand…

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I refuse to apologize for my ability -- I refuse to apologize for my success -- I refuse to apologize for my…

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Capitalism is based on individual rights - not on the sacrifice of the individual to the 'public good' of the collective.

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We are now moving towards complete collectivism or socialism, a system under which everybody is enslaved to everybody.

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Capitalism is not the system of the past; it is the system of the future -- if mankind is to have a…

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It is the basic, metaphysical fact of man's nature -- the connection between his survival and his use of reason -- that…

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Economic power is exercised by means of a positive, by offering men a reward, an incentive, a payment, a value; political power…

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The Romanticists predominantly, were enemies of capitalism, which they regarded as a prosaic, materialistic, “petty bourgeois” system — never realizing that it…

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Capitalism has been called nationalistic - yet it is the only system that banished ethnicity, and made it possible, in the United…

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The more propaganda . . . conservatives spread for capitalist economics while at the same time preaching collectivism morally and philosophically ,…

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Capitalism demands the best of every man - his rationality - and rewards him accordingly. It leaves every man free to choose…

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The spread of evil is the symptom of a vacuum. Whenever evil wins, it is only by default: by the moral failure…

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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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It is a matter of record that in the German Election of 1933, the Communist Party was ordered by its leaders to…

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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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America's abundance was created not by public sacrifices to the common good, but by the productive genius of free men who pursued…

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Needless to say, under either system [socialism or fascism], the inequalities of income and standard of living are greater than anything possible…

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Government control of the economy, no matter in whose behalf, has been the source of all the evils in our industrial society…

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Capitalism has created the highest standard of living ever known on earth. The evidence is incontrovertible. The contrast between West and East…

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I am opposed to all forms of control; I am for an absolute laissez faire, free, unregulated economy. I am for the…

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The moral justification of capitalism does not lie in the altruist claim that it represents the best way to achieve 'the common…

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The majority of those who are loosely identified by the term 'liberals' are afraid to let themselves discover that what they advocate…

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“It is often asked: Why was capitalism destroyed in spite of its incomparably beneficent record? The answer lies in the fact that…

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Laissez-faire capitalism is the only social system based on the recognition of individual rights and, therefore, the only system that bans force…

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Capitalism is our only moral system. All other systems take advantage of man's rights and liberties.

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Capitalism and altruism are incompatible; they are philosophical opposites; they cannot co-exist in the same man or in the same society.

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Capitalism is a social system based on the recognition of individual rights, including property rights, in which all property is privately owned.

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Capitalism is the only system that can make freedom, individuality, and the pursuit of values possible in practice.

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The right to agree with others is not a problem in any society; it is the right to disagree that is crucial.…

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Capitalism has been called a system of greed—yet it is the system that raised the standard of living of its poorest citizens…

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Contrary to the vulgar belief that men are motivated primarily by materialistic considerations, we now see the capitalist system being discredited and…

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Capitalism is the only system that can make freedom, individuality, and the pursuit of values possible in practice. When I say 'capitalism,'…

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There are no white lies, there is only the blackest of destruction, and a white lie is the blackest of all.

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“She moved her hand and let it rest against his. He did not withdraw his fingers and he did not pretend indifference. She bent…

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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Inflation is not caused by the actions of private citizens, but by the government: by an artificial expansion of the money supply required to…

“We are fornicating in the sight of six billion people.”

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Have you felt it too? Have you seen how your best friends love everything about you- except the things that count? And your most…

Every coercive monopoly was created by government intervention into the economy: by special privileges, such as franchises or subsidies, which closed the entry of…

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