All the reasons which made the initiation of physical force evil, make the retaliatory use of physical force a moral imperative. — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
The moral absolute should be: if and when, in any dispute, one side initiates the use of physical force, that side is… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
When men abandon reason, physical force becomes their only means of dealing with one another and of settling disagreements. — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
There are two principles on which all men of intellectual integrity and good will can agree, as a 'basic minimum,' as a… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
Potentially, a government is the most dangerous threat to man's rights; it holds a legal monopoly on the use of physical force… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
Whatever may be open to disagreement, there is one act of evil that may not, the act that no man may commit… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
So long as men desire to live together, no man may initiate the use of physical force against others. . . .… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
Man’s rights can be violated only by the use of physical force. It is only by means of physical force that one… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
No man may initiate the use of physical force against others. No man-or group or society or government-has the right to assume… — 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
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
