The Argument from Intimidation is a confession of intellectual impotence. — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
The difference between a welfare state and a totalitarian state is a matter of time. — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
Every government interference in the economy consists of giving an unearned benefit, extorted by force, to some men at the expense of… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
The end does not justify the means. No one's rights can be secured by the violation of the rights of others. — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
Everyone has the right to make his own decisions, but none has the right to force his decision on others. — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
Capitalism is not the system of the past; it is the system of the future -- if mankind is to have a… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
Political freedom cannot exist without economic freedom; a free mind and a free market are corollaries. — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
We can evade reality, but we cannot evade the consequences of evading reality — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
“One of the methods used by statists to destroy capitalism consists in establishing controls that tie a given industry hand and foot,… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
There is no difference between communism and socialism, except in the means of achieving the same ultimate end: communism proposes to enslave… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
The right to vote is a consequence, not a primary cause, of a free social system - and its value depends on… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
What is the basic, the essential, the crucial principle that differentiates freedom from slavery? It is the principle of voluntary action versus… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
The man who refuses to judge, who neither agrees nor disagrees, who declares that there are no absolutes and believes that he… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
In a capitalist society, all human relationships are voluntary. Men are free to cooperate or not, to deal with one another or… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
In any compromise between food and poison, it is only death that can win. In any compromise between good and evil, it… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
It is true that the welfare-statists are not socialists, that they never advocated or intended the socialization of private property, that they… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
Socialism is the doctrine that man has no right to exist for his own sake, that his life and his work do… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
The government's only proper job is to protect individual rights against violence by force or fraud ... to protect men from foreign… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
The [U.S.] Constitution is a limitation on the government, not on private individuals ... it does not prescribe the conduct of private… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
Collectivism holds that the individual has no rights, that his life and work belong to the group (to "society," to the tribe,… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
Lobbying' is the activity of attempting to influence legislation by privately influencing the legislators. It is the result and creation of a… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
Men have been taught that it is a virtue to agree with others. But the creator is the man who disagrees. Men… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
Every movement that seeks to enslave a country, every dictatorship or potential dictatorship, needs some minority group as a scapegoat which it… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
Capitalism has created the highest standard of living ever known on earth. The evidence is incontrovertible. The contrast between West and East… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
Individual rights are not subject to a public vote; a majority has no right to vote away the rights of a minority. — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
To deal with men by force is as impractical as to deal with nature by persuasion. — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
The right to life means that a man has the right to support his life by his own work (on any economic… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
There are only two means by which men can deal with one another: guns or logic. Force or persuasion. Those who know… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
A society that robs an individual of the product of his effort ... is not strictly speaking a society, but a mob… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
Morally, the promise of an impossible “right” to economic security is an infamous attempt to abrogate the concept of rights. It can… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
The American businessmen, as a class, have demonstrated the greatest productive genius and the most spectacular achievements ever recorded in the economic… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
No individual or private group or private organization has the legal power to initiate the use of physical force against other individuals… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
Economic power is exercised by means of a positive, by offering men a reward, an incentive, a payment, a value; political power… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
If you surrender everything to the government and give it total power to plan the whole economy, this will not guarantee your… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
Under fascism, citizens retain the responsibilities of owning property, without freedom to act and without any of the advantages of ownership. Under… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
There are no white lies, there is only the blackest of destruction, and a white lie is the blackest of all. — Ayn Rand Copy Share
She watched the prairies the rivers, the towns slipping past at an untouchable distance below - and she noted that the sense of detachment… — Ayn Rand Copy Share
“This was reality, she thought, this sense of clear outlines, of purpose, of lightness, of hope.” — Ayn Rand Copy Share
A “collective” mind does not exist. It is merely the sum of endless numbers of individual minds. If we have an endless number of… — Ayn Rand Copy Share
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… — Ayn Rand Copy Share
“She moved her hand and let it rest against his. He did not withdraw his fingers and he did not pretend indifference. She bent… — Ayn Rand Copy Share
This miracle of me is mine to own and keep, and mine to guard, and mine to use, and mine to kneel before. — Ayn Rand Copy Share
“There was still one response, the greatest, that she had missed. She thought: To find a feeling that would hold, as their sum, as… — Ayn Rand Copy Share
Inflation is not caused by the actions of private citizens, but by the government: by an artificial expansion of the money supply required to… — Ayn Rand Copy Share
“She was fifteen when it occurred to her for the first time that women did not run railroads and that people might object. To… — Ayn Rand Copy Share
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… — Ayn Rand Copy Share
Have you felt it too? Have you seen how your best friends love everything about you- except the things that count? And your most… — Ayn Rand Copy Share
Every coercive monopoly was created by government intervention into the economy: by special privileges, such as franchises or subsidies, which closed the entry of… — Ayn Rand Copy Share
We are all brothers under the skin - and I, for one, would be willing to skin humanity to prove it. — Ayn Rand Copy Share
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