Bill of rights Quote by Ayn Rand Download Open image “Government holds a legal monopoly on the use of physical force.” — Ayn Rand ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.3 out of 5 (4 ratings) Copy quoteShare Bill of rights Force Government Law Monopoly Physical attraction Physical force Politics Use
It is a duty for any government to uphold the rule of law, and this sometimes requires the proportionate use of force. — Frans Timmermans Copy Share Image
A government is an institution that holds a monopoly on the legitimate use of violence. — Max Weber 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 or groups… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
A popular government wields a moral force, which is infinitely superior to the physical force that the foreign government could summon to its assistance. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
“All governments, even these precious “democracies,” derive all their power by force. Do something the government doesn’t want, like, say, cross the street against… — S. Evan Townsend Copy Share Image
A government which uses force to maintain its rule teaches the oppressed to use force to oppose it. — Nelson Mandela Copy Share Image
When a thing defies physical law, there's usually politics involved. — P. J. O'Rourke Copy Share Image
Governments have monopolies on certain things, like eminent domain and deadly force. — P. J. O'Rourke Copy Share Image
Government power is always abused by seizing and perverting the law. And with few exceptions, government always determines what is law. — John Galt Copy Share Image
Force rules the world, and not opinion; but opinion is that which makes use of force — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
The use of force stands in need of control by a public neutral authority, in the interests of liberty no less than of justice.… — Bertrand Russell 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
Some of the folks on both sides might be sincere, but it does seem as if it is only the opposition that cares about… — James Bovard Copy Share Image
“I have a recurring fantasy that one more article has been added to the Bill of Rights: the right to free access to imagination.… — Azar Nafisi Copy Share Image
“manager’s bill of rights,” those basic things that you have a right to expect from your employees. Responsible employees: Are responsive to feedback Keep… — Erika Andersen Copy Share Image
“To disarm the people is the best and most effectual way to enslave them." -George Mason - Father of the Bill of Rights” — Mark Goodwin Copy Share Image
A bill of rights is what the people are entitled to against every government on earth, general or particular, and what no just government… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
The average citizen expresses pride in the American Bill of Rights and then seeks to protect his real estate by restrictive covenants. — Harry Allen Overstreet Copy Share Image
“Among those liberties which we in this UNION claim for the child, due to him as a person, is freedom of thought, the function… — Parents' National Education Union Copy Share Image
To be patriotic is to be able to question government policy in times of crisis. To be patriotic is to stand up for the… — Sami Al-Arian Copy Share Image
Everybody now seems to be talking about democracy. I don't understand this. As I think of it, democracy isn't like a Sunday suit to… — Dalton Trumbo Copy Share Image
We have a list of human rights - right to food, right to shelter, right to health, right to education, many such items which… — Muhammad Yunus Copy Share Image
If this nation is to be wise as well as strong, if we are to achieve our destiny, then we need more new ideas… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“In the first movement, our infancy as a species, we felt no separation from the natural world around us. Trees, rocks, and plants surrounded… — Joanna Macy Copy Share Image
