Chaos Quote by Ayn Rand

Any group or "collective", large or small, is only a number of individuals. A group can have no rights other than the rights of…

— Ayn Rand

Any group or "collective," large or small, is only a number of individuals. A group can have no rights other than the rights of…

— Ayn Rand

“There are no 'rights' of special groups, there are no 'rights of farmers, of workers, of businessmen, of employees, of employers, of the young,…

— Ayn Rand

Man holds these rights [life, liberty and property], not from the Collective nor for the Collective, but against the Collective - as a barrier…

— Ayn Rand

Individualism regards man - every man - as an independent, sovereign entity who possesses an inalienable right to his own life, a right derived…

— Ayn Rand

Whatever each man can separately do, without trespassing upon others, he has a right to do for himself; and he has a right to…

— Edmund Burke

Individuals have rights and there are things no person or group may do to them (without violating their rights).

— Robert Nozick

The correct statement of individual rights is that everyone has the right to an opinion, but crucially, that opinion can be roundly ignored and…

— Brian Cox

Everyone has an equal and absolute right to sovereignty over his own body, his own property, and his own life, and to pursue his…

— Robert Ringer

Rights are not gifts from one man to another, nor from one class of men to another. It is impossible to discover any origin…

— Thomas Paine

“As they cannot be defined univocally, nor irrefutably demonstrated, so-called “human rights” serve as a pretext for the individual who rebels against a positive…

— Nicolás Gómez Dávila

It's long been common practice among many to draw a distinction between "human rights" and "property rights," suggesting that the two are separate and…

— Richard M. Nixon