I think it's funny. There was a time when men were afraid that somebody would reveal some secret of theirs that was… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
There can be no such thing, in law or in morality, as actions forbidden to an individual, but permitted to a mob — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
Rights are not a matter of numbers - and there can be no such thing, in law or in morality, as actions… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
“There's no way to rule innocent men. The only power any government has is the power to crack down on criminals. Well,… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
Collectivism answers: The power of society is unlimited. Society may make any laws it wishes, and force them upon anyone in any… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
While, politically, a mixed economy preserves the semblance of an organized society with a semblance of law and order, economically it is… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
God help us, ma'am! Do you see what we saw? We saw that we'd been given a law to live by, a… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
It is futile to fight against, if one does not know what one is fighting for. — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
Since nature does not endow all men with equal beauty or equal intelligence, and the faculty of volition leads men to make… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
Congress shall make no law abridging the freedom of production and trade... — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
Freedom, in a political context, means freedom from government coercion. It does not mean freedom from the landlord, from the employer, or… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
There are no little people in America. There are only people, equal before the law, yearning to breathe free and wanting to… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
A story is an end in itself. It is not written to teach, sell, explain or destroy anything. It is not written… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
“FCC power rests on ... nonobjective law (which) delivers men's lives, fortunes, careers, ambitions into the arbitrary power of a bureaucrat who… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
The purpose of the law is not to prevent a future offense, but to punish the one actually committed. — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
Are you in a universe which is ruled by natural laws and, therefore, is stable, firm, absolute - and knowable? Or are… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
When it is established that government by right can take wealth from some and give it to others. When a society establishes… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
The only proper functions of a government are: the police, to protect you from criminals; the army, to protect you from foreign… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
“No. I am complying with the law—to the letter. Your law holds that my life, my work and my property may be… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
Under the antitrust laws, a man becomes a criminal from the moment he goes into business, no matter what he does. If… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
The concept of free competition enforced by law is a grotesque contradiction in terms. — 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
Unjust laws have to be fought ideologically; they cannot be fought or corrected by means of mere disobedience and futile martyrdom. — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
They proclaim that every man is entitled to exist without labor and, the laws of reality to the contrary notwithstanding, is entitled… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
It is a policeman’s duty to retrieve stolen property and return it to its owners. But when robbery becomes the purpose of… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
The first right on earth is the right of the ego. Man's first duty is to himself. His moral law is never… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
There’s no way to rule innocent men. The only power any government has is the power to crack down on criminals. Well,… — 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 Image
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 Image
“This was reality, she thought, this sense of clear outlines, of purpose, of lightness, of hope.” — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
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 Image
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 Image
“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 Image
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 Image
“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 Image
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 Image
“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 Image
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 Image
