Whenever destroyers appear among men, they start by destroying money, for money is men's protection and the base of a moral existence.… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
All the evils, abuses, and iniquities, popularly ascribed to businessmen and to capitalism, were not caused by an unregulated economy or by… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
We are fast approaching the stage of the ultimate inversion: the stage where the government is free to do anything it pleases,… — 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
“What subjectivism is in the realm of ethics, collectivism is in the realm of politics. Just as the notion that "anything I… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
“We are fast approaching the stage of ultimate inversion: the stage where the government is free to do anything it pleases, while… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
“Today, when a concerted effort is made to obliterate this point, it cannot be repeated too often that the Constitution is a… — 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
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 Copy Share Image
The great creators - the thinkers, the artists, the scientists, the inventors - stood alone against the men of their time. Every… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
Government control of the economy, no matter in whose behalf, has been the source of all the evils in our industrial society… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
Whoever claims the right to redistribute the wealth produced by others is claiming the right to treat human beings as chattel. — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
Independence is the recognition of the fact that yours is the responsibility of judgement and nothing can help you escape it -… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
Rulers exist entirely through the persons of others. Their goal is in their subjects, in the activity of enslaving. They are as… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
The right of a nation to determine its own form of government does not include the right to establish a slave society… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
I am only concerned with politics so I may see the day when I don't have to be concerned with politics. — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
I can't compete and when I do, the rules of engagement change in the middle of the game. I'll let the powers… — 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
The spread of evil is the symptom of a vacuum. Whenever evil wins, it is only by default: by the moral failure… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
The only proper, moral purpose of a government is to protect man's rights, which means: to protect him from physical violence -… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
The source of the government's authority is “the consent of the governed.” This means that the government is not the ruler, but… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
Politically, the goal of today’s dominant trend is statism. Philosophically , the goal is the obliteration of reason; psychologically , it is… — 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
“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 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
