--- title: "19 Claims Quotes By Ayn Rand" description: "19 Claims quotes by Ayn Rand. Plus more from Ayn Rand and more Claims sayings from other authors." image: "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/1f1/ayn-rand-59_capitalism_whoever-claims-the-right-to-redistribute_1319530.jpg" --- > [Whoever claims the right to redistribute the wealth produced by others is claiming the right to treat human beings as chattel.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ayn-rand/whoever-claims-the-right-to-redistribute-the-wealth-produced-by/) [Ayn Rand](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ayn-rand/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/1f1/ayn-rand-59_capitalism_whoever-claims-the-right-to-redistribute_1319530.jpg) > [I want to be prepared to claim the greatest virtue of all - that I was a man who made money](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ayn-rand/i-want-to-be-prepared-to-claim-the-greatest-virtue-of-all-that-i-was/) [Ayn Rand](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ayn-rand/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/91f/ayn-rand-59_be-prepared_i-want-to-be-prepared-to-claim-the-great_312343.jpg) > [This is the age othe common man, they tell us-a title which any man may claim to the extent osuch distinction as…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ayn-rand/this-is-the-age-othe-common-man-they-tell-us-a-title-which-any-man/) [Ayn Rand](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ayn-rand/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/952/ayn-rand-59_achieve_this-is-the-age-othe-common-man-they-tel_863828.jpg) > [The fact that a man has no claim on others ... does not preclude or prohibit good will among men and does…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ayn-rand/the-fact-that-a-man-has-no-claim-on-others-does-not-preclude-or/) [Ayn Rand](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ayn-rand/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/12c/ayn-rand-59_accepting_the-fact-that-a-man-has-no-claim-on-othe_2555617.jpg) > [Altruism does not mean mere kindness or generosity, but the sacrifice of the best among men to the worst, the sacrifice of…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ayn-rand/altruism-does-not-mean-mere-kindness-or-generosity-but-the-sacrifice/) [Ayn Rand](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ayn-rand/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/34b/ayn-rand-59_ability_altruism-does-not-mean-mere-kindness-or_334268.jpg) > [When one turns from reason to faith, when one rejects the absolutism of reality, one undercuts the absolutism of one's consciousness -…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ayn-rand/when-one-turns-from-reason-to-faith-when-one-rejects-the-absolutism/) [Ayn Rand](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ayn-rand/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/933/ayn-rand-59_absolutism_when-one-turns-from-reason-to-faith-when_2159622.jpg) > [A morality that holds need as a claim, holds emptiness-non-existence-as its standard of value; it rewards an absence, a defect: weakness, inability,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ayn-rand/a-morality-that-holds-need-as-a-claim-holds-emptiness-non-existence/) [Ayn Rand](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ayn-rand/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/2b1/ayn-rand-59_absence_a-morality-that-holds-need-as-a-claim-ho_505652.jpg) > [No advocate of reason can claim the right to force his ideas on others. No advocate of the free mind can claim…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ayn-rand/no-advocate-of-reason-can-claim-the-right-to-force-his-ideas-on/) [Ayn Rand](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ayn-rand/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/b60/ayn-rand-59_agreement_no-advocate-of-reason-can-claim-the-righ_1354436.jpg) > [I am neither foe nor friend to my brothers, but such as each of them shall deserve of me. And to earn…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ayn-rand/i-am-neither-foe-nor-friend-to-my-brothers-but-such-as-each-of-them/) [Ayn Rand](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ayn-rand/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/3a6/ayn-rand-59_born_i-am-neither-foe-nor-friend-to-my-brothe_1165855.jpg) > [“And what is the state but a servant and a convenience for a large number of people, just like the electric light…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ayn-rand/and-what-is-the-state-but-a-servant-and-a-convenience-for-a-large/) [Ayn Rand](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ayn-rand/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/20d/ayn-rand-59_claims_and-what-is-the-state-but-a-servant-and_54881.jpg) > [Poverty is not a mortgage on the labor of others-misfortu ne is not a mortgage on achievement-fai lure is not a mortgage…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ayn-rand/poverty-is-not-a-mortgage-on-the-labor-of-others-misfortu-ne-is-not-a/) [Ayn Rand](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ayn-rand/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/f39/ayn-rand-59_achievement_poverty-is-not-a-mortgage-on-the-labor-o_1676304.jpg) > [ So you think that money is the root of all evil? \[...\] Have you ever asked what is the root of money?… ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ayn-rand/so-you-think-that-money-is-the-root-of-all-evil-have-you-ever-asked/) [Ayn Rand](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ayn-rand/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/b5e/ayn-rand-59_able_so-you-think-that-money-is-the-root-of-a_305030.jpg) > [The moral justification of capitalism does not lie in the altruist claim that it represents the best way to achieve 'the common…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ayn-rand/the-moral-justification-of-capitalism-does-not-lie-in-the-altruist/) [Ayn Rand](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ayn-rand/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/17e/ayn-rand-59_achieve_the-moral-justification-of-capitalism-do_2538067.jpg) > [You who prattle that morality is social and that man would need no morality on a desert island - it is on…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ayn-rand/you-who-prattle-that-morality-is-social-and-that-man-would-need-no/) [Ayn Rand](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ayn-rand/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/633/ayn-rand-59_causes_you-who-prattle-that-morality-is-social_1217105.jpg) > [Of all the statist violations of individual rights in a mixed economy, the military draft is the worst. It is an abrogation…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ayn-rand/of-all-the-statist-violations-of-individual-rights-in-a-mixed-economy/) [Ayn Rand](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ayn-rand/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/1b2/ayn-rand-59_accepted_of-all-the-statist-violations-of-individ_1751766.jpg) > [No matter how vast your knowledge or how modest, it is your own mind that has to acquire it. It is only…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ayn-rand/no-matter-how-vast-your-knowledge-or-how-modest-it-is-your-own-mind/) [Ayn Rand](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ayn-rand/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/fd0/ayn-rand-59_acquire_no-matter-how-vast-your-knowledge-or-how_2637356.jpg) > [What I want you to understand, is the full evil of those who claim to have become convinced that this earth, by…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ayn-rand/what-i-want-you-to-understand-is-the-full-evil-of-those-who-claim-to/) [Ayn Rand](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ayn-rand/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/88b/ayn-rand-59_chance_what-i-want-you-to-understand-is-the-ful_1203089.jpg) > [There are four characteristics which brand a country unmistakably as a dictatorship: one-party rule, executions without trial or with a mock trial…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ayn-rand/there-are-four-characteristics-which-brand-a-country-unmistakably-as/) [Ayn Rand](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ayn-rand/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/fb9/ayn-rand-59_brands_there-are-four-characteristics-which-bra_783362.jpg) > [I came here to say that I do not recognize anyone's right to one minute of my life. Nor to any part…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ayn-rand/i-came-here-to-say-that-i-do-not-recognize-anyone-s-right-to-one/) [Ayn Rand](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ayn-rand/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/31d/ayn-rand-59_achievement_i-came-here-to-say-that-i-do-not-recogni_1786120.jpg) ## Other authors on Claims ## More by Ayn Rand > [There are no white lies, there is only the blackest of destruction, and a white lie is the blackest of all.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ayn-rand/there-are-no-white-lies-there-is-only-the-blackest-of-destruction-and/) [Ayn Rand](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ayn-rand/) > [She watched the prairies the rivers, the towns slipping past at an untouchable distance below - and she noted that the sense of detachment…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ayn-rand/she-watched-the-prairies-the-rivers-the-towns-slipping-past-at-an/) [Ayn Rand](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ayn-rand/) > [“This was reality, she thought, this sense of clear outlines, of purpose, of lightness, of hope.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ayn-rand/this-was-reality-she-thought-this-sense-of-clear-outlines-of-purpose/) [Ayn Rand](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ayn-rand/) > [A “collective” mind does not exist. It is merely the sum of endless numbers of individual minds. If we have an endless number of…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ayn-rand/a-collective-mind-does-not-exist-it-is-merely-the-sum-of-endless/) [Ayn Rand](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ayn-rand/) > [Lobbying' is the activity of attempting to influence legislation by privately influencing the legislators. It is the result and creation of a mixed economy-of…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ayn-rand/lobbying-is-the-activity-of-attempting-to-influence-legislation-by/) [Ayn Rand](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ayn-rand/) > [“She moved her hand and let it rest against his. He did not withdraw his fingers and he did not pretend indifference. She bent…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ayn-rand/she-moved-her-hand-and-let-it-rest-against-his-he-did-not-withdraw/) [Ayn Rand](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ayn-rand/) > [This miracle of me is mine to own and keep, and mine to guard, and mine to use, and mine to kneel before.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ayn-rand/this-miracle-of-me-is-mine-to-own-and-keep-and-mine-to-guard-and-mine/) [Ayn Rand](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ayn-rand/) > [“There was still one response, the greatest, that she had missed. She thought: To find a feeling that would hold, as their sum, as…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ayn-rand/there-was-still-one-response-the-greatest-that-she-had-missed-she/) [Ayn Rand](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ayn-rand/) > [Inflation is not caused by the actions of private citizens, but by the government: by an artificial expansion of the money supply required to…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ayn-rand/inflation-is-not-caused-by-the-actions-of-private-citizens-but-by-the/) [Ayn Rand](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ayn-rand/) > [“We are fornicating in the sight of six billion people.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ayn-rand/we-are-fornicating-in-the-sight-of-six-billion-people/) [Ayn Rand](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ayn-rand/) > [“She was fifteen when it occurred to her for the first time that women did not run railroads and that people might object. To…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ayn-rand/she-was-fifteen-when-it-occurred-to-her-for-the-first-time-that-women/) [Ayn Rand](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ayn-rand/) > [Fransisco, you're some kind of very high nobility, aren't you?" He answered, "Not yet. The reason my family has lasted for such a long…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ayn-rand/fransisco-you-re-some-kind-of-very-high-nobility-aren-t-you-he/) [Ayn Rand](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ayn-rand/) > [Have you felt it too? Have you seen how your best friends love everything about you- except the things that count? And your most…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ayn-rand/have-you-felt-it-too-have-you-seen-how-your-best-friends-love/) [Ayn Rand](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ayn-rand/) > [Every coercive monopoly was created by government intervention into the economy: by special privileges, such as franchises or subsidies, which closed the entry of…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ayn-rand/every-coercive-monopoly-was-created-by-government-intervention-into/) [Ayn Rand](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ayn-rand/) > [We are all brothers under the skin - and I, for one, would be willing to skin humanity to prove it.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ayn-rand/we-are-all-brothers-under-the-skin-and-i-for-one-would-be-willing-to/) [Ayn Rand](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ayn-rand/) ```json { "@context": "https://schema.org", "@graph": [ { "@type": "ItemList", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/claims/ayn-rand/#itemlist", "name": "19 Claims Quotes By Ayn Rand", "numberOfItems": 19, "itemListElement": [ { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 1, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "Whoever claims the right to redistribute the wealth produced by others is claiming the right to treat human beings as chattel.", "creator": { "@type": "Person", "name": "Ayn Rand" }, "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ayn-rand/whoever-claims-the-right-to-redistribute-the-wealth-produced-by/", "image": { "@type": "ImageObject", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/1f1/ayn-rand-59_capitalism_whoever-claims-the-right-to-redistribute_1319530.jpg", "contentUrl": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/1f1/ayn-rand-59_capitalism_whoever-claims-the-right-to-redistribute_1319530.jpg", "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/1f1/ayn-rand-59_capitalism_whoever-claims-the-right-to-redistribute_1319530.jpg", "width": 1080, "height": 1080, "caption": "“Whoever claims the right to redistribute the wealth produced by others is claiming the right to treat human…” — Ayn Rand", "creditText": "SMS4Smile Quotes", "creator": { "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#organization" } } } }, { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 2, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "I want to be prepared to claim the greatest virtue of all - 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