--- title: "5 Gang Quotes By Ayn Rand" description: "5 Gang quotes by Ayn Rand. Plus more from Ayn Rand and more Gang sayings from other authors." image: "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/20a/ayn-rand-59_capitalism_capitalism-has-been-called-a-system-of-g_220036.jpg" --- > [Capitalism has been called a system of greed—yet it is the system that raised the standard of living of its poorest citizens…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ayn-rand/capitalism-has-been-called-a-system-of-greed-yet-it-is-the-system/) [Ayn Rand](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ayn-rand/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/20a/ayn-rand-59_capitalism_capitalism-has-been-called-a-system-of-g_220036.jpg) > [Dictatorship nations are outlaws. Any free nation had the right to invade Nazi Germany and, today, has the right to invade Soviet…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ayn-rand/dictatorship-nations-are-outlaws-any-free-nation-had-the-right-to/) [Ayn Rand](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ayn-rand/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/d2f/ayn-rand-59_cuba_dictatorship-nations-are-outlaws-any-fre_626300.jpg) > [While, politically, a mixed economy preserves the semblance of an organized society with a semblance of law and order, economically it is…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ayn-rand/while-politically-a-mixed-economy-preserves-the-semblance-of-an/) [Ayn Rand](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ayn-rand/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/4d0/ayn-rand-59_century_while-politically-a-mixed-economy-preser_680555.jpg) > [A society that robs an individual of the product of his effort ... is not strictly speaking a society, but a mob…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ayn-rand/a-society-that-robs-an-individual-of-the-product-of-his-effort-is-not/) [Ayn Rand](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ayn-rand/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/d0f/ayn-rand-59_community_a-society-that-robs-an-individual-of-the_1470260.jpg) > [A society that robs an individual of the product of his effort, or enslaves him, or attempts to limit the freedom of…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ayn-rand/a-society-that-robs-an-individual-of-the-product-of-his-effort-or/) [Ayn Rand](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ayn-rand/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/58c/ayn-rand-59_community_a-society-that-robs-an-individual-of-the_2678879.jpg) ## Other authors on Gang ## 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/gang/ayn-rand/#itemlist", "name": "5 Gang Quotes By Ayn Rand", "numberOfItems": 5, "itemListElement": [ { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 1, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "Capitalism has been called a system of greed—yet it is the system that raised the standard of living of its poorest citizens to heights no collectivist system has ever begun to equal, and no tribal gang can conceive of.", "creator": { "@type": "Person", "name": "Ayn Rand" }, "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ayn-rand/capitalism-has-been-called-a-system-of-greed-yet-it-is-the-system/", "image": { "@type": "ImageObject", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/20a/ayn-rand-59_capitalism_capitalism-has-been-called-a-system-of-g_220036.jpg", "contentUrl": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/20a/ayn-rand-59_capitalism_capitalism-has-been-called-a-system-of-g_220036.jpg", "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/20a/ayn-rand-59_capitalism_capitalism-has-been-called-a-system-of-g_220036.jpg", "width": 1080, "height": 1080, "caption": "“Capitalism has been called a system of greed—yet it is the system that raised the standard of living of its…” — Ayn Rand", "creditText": "SMS4Smile Quotes", "creator": { "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#organization" } } } }, { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 2, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "Dictatorship nations are outlaws. 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