Politics Quotes by Ayn Rand

If a society is to be free, its government has to be controlled.

— Ayn Rand

I am interested in politics so that one day I will not have to be interested in politics.

— Ayn Rand

The creator's concern is the conquest of nature. The parasite's concern is the conquest of men.

— Ayn Rand

A government is the most dangerous threat to man

— Ayn Rand

“When unlimited and unrestricted by individual rights a government is men's deadliest enemy.”

— Ayn Rand

I am interested in politics only in order to secure and protect freedom.

— Ayn Rand

Government holds a legal monopoly on the use of physical force.

— Ayn Rand

The spread of evil is the symptom of a vacuum. Whenever evil wins, it is only by default: by the moral failure…

— Ayn Rand

Whoever claims the right to redistribute the wealth produced by others is claiming the right to treat human beings as chattel.

— Ayn Rand

Paper is a check drawn by legal looters upon an account which is not theirs: upon the virtue of the victims. Watch…

— Ayn Rand

Politically, the goal of today’s dominant trend is statism. Philosophically, the goal is the obliteration of reason; psychologically, it is the erosion…

— Ayn Rand

A government is the most dangerous threat to man's rights: it holds a legal monopoly on the use of physical force against…

— Ayn Rand

There are no little people in America. There are only people, equal before the law, yearning to breathe free and wanting to…

— Ayn Rand

The only power any government has is the power to crack down on criminals. Well, when there aren

— Ayn Rand

“A political battle is merely a skirmish fought with muskets; a philosophical battle is a nuclear war.”

— Ayn Rand

“The fundamental evil of government grants is the fact that men are forced to pay for the support of ideas diametrically opposed…

— Ayn Rand

Rulers exist entirely through the persons of others. Their goal is in their subjects, in the activity of enslaving. They are as…

— Ayn Rand

“There is no difference between the principles, policies and practical results of socialism—and those of any historical or prehistorical tyranny. Socialism is…

— Ayn Rand

Capitalism has been called nationalistic - yet it is the only system that banished ethnicity, and made it possible, in the United…

— Ayn Rand

If you surrender everything to the government and give it total power to plan the whole economy, this will not guarantee your…

— Ayn Rand

We are fast approaching the stage of the ultimate inversion: the stage where the government is free to do anything it pleases,…

— Ayn Rand

The only power any government has is the power to crack down on criminals. Well, when there aren't enough criminals, one makes…

— Ayn Rand

Economic power is exercised by means of a positive, by offering men a reward, an incentive, a payment, a value; political power…

— Ayn Rand

America's abundance was created not by public sacrifices to the common good, but by the productive genius of free men who pursued…

— Ayn Rand

Politically, the goal of today’s dominant trend is statism. Philosophically , the goal is the obliteration of reason; psychologically , it is…

— Ayn Rand

When it is established that government by right can take wealth from some and give it to others. When a society establishes…

— Ayn Rand

Under fascism, citizens retain the responsibilities of owning property, without freedom to act and without any of the advantages of ownership. Under…

— Ayn Rand

There can be no compromise between freedom and government controls; to accept 'just a few controls' is to surrender the principle of…

— Ayn Rand

“The basic political principle of the Objectivist ethics is: no man may initiate the use of physical force against others. No man—or…

— Ayn Rand

“Let anyone who believes that a high standard of living is the achievement of labor unions and government controls ask himself the…

— Ayn Rand

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

“Playboy: But you are interested in politics, or at least in political theory, aren’t you? Rand: Let me answer you this way:…

— Ayn Rand

“It is often asked: Why was capitalism destroyed in spite of its incomparably beneficent record? The answer lies in the fact that…

— Ayn Rand

“The only proper purpose of a government is to protect man's rights, which means: to protect him from physical violence. A proper…

— Ayn Rand

The government was set to protect man from criminals, and the Constitution was written to protect man from the government.

— Ayn Rand

We have only two sources of information about the character of the people around us: we judge them by what they do…

— Ayn Rand

“We are fast approaching the stage of ultimate inversion: the stage where the government is free to do anything it pleases, while…

— Ayn Rand

Political freedom cannot exist without economic freedom; a free mind and a free market are corollaries.

— Ayn Rand

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

The only proper purpose of a government is to protect man's rights, which means: to protect him from physical violence.

— Ayn Rand