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Against Quotes by Ayn Rand
- When you see that trading is done, not by consent, but by compulsion - when you see that in order to produce, you need to…
- The government's only proper job is to protect individual rights against violence by force or fraud ... to protect men from foreign invaders ... to…
- The [U.S.] Constitution is a limitation on the government, not on private individuals ... it does not prescribe the conduct of private individuals, only the…
- Men have been taught that it is a virtue to agree with others. But the creator is the man who disagrees. Men have been taught…
- No individual or private group or private organization has the legal power to initiate the use of physical force against other individuals or groups and…
- So long as men desire to live together, no man may initiate the use of physical force against others. . . . When a man…
- Let no man posture as an advocate of peace if he proposes or supports any social system that initiates the use of force against individual…
- Whenever anyone accuses some person of being 'unfeeling,' he means that that person is just. He means that that person has no causeless emotions and…
- To interpose the threat of physical destruction between a man and his perception of reality, is to negate and paralyze his means of survival to…
- Whatever may be open to disagreement, there is one act of evil that may not, the act that no man may commit against others and…
- A society that robs an individual of the product of his effort, or enslaves him, or attempts to limit the freedom of his mind, or…
- When you force a man to act against his own choice and judgment, it's his thinking that you want him to suspend.
- If it were true that men could achieve their good by means of turning some men into sacrificial animals, and . . . if I…
- The great creators - the thinkers, the artists, the scientists, the inventors - stood alone against the men of their time. Every great new thought…
- We cannot fight against collectivism, unless we fight against its moral base: altruism. We cannot fight against altruism, unless we fight against its epistemological base:…
- The great creators-the thinkers, the artists, the scientists, the inventors-stood alone against the men of their time.
- The government was set to protect man from criminals-and the constitution was written to protect man from the government. The Bill of Rights was not…
- Man’s rights can be violated only by the use of physical force. It is only by means of physical force that one man can deprive…
- Every period ruled by mystics was an era of stagnation and want, when most men were on strike against existence,
- We the Living is not a novel 'about Soviet Russia.' It is a novel about Man against the State. Its basic theme is the sanctity…
- The only proper purpose of a government is to protect man's rights, which means: to protect him from physical violence. A proper government is only…
- We are on strike against the doctrine that life is guilt.
- [T]he only real moral crime that one man can commit against another is the attempt to create, by his words or actions, an impression of…
- There are two principles on which all men of intellectual integrity and good will can agree, as a 'basic minimum,' as a precondition of any…
- Potentially, a government is the most dangerous threat to man's rights: it holds a legal monopoly on the use of physical force against legally disarmed…
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- The new always happens against the overwhelming odds of statistical laws and their probability, which for all practical, everyday purposes amounts to… — Hannah Arendt
- Where all are guilty, no one is; confessions of collective guilt are the best possible safeguard against the discovery of culprits, and… — Hannah Arendt
- I have nothing against 3-D in theory. But I've also never run to the movies because something's in 3-D. — J. J. Abrams
- A tyrant must put on the appearance of uncommon devotion to religion. Subjects are less apprehensive of illegal treatment from a ruler… — Aristotle
- We praise a man who feels angry on the right grounds and against the right persons and also in the right manner… — Aristotle
- The moral virtues, then, are produced in us neither by nature nor against nature. Nature, indeed, prepares in us the ground for… — Aristotle
- The alliance should agree... to an effective NATO role against the new threats presented by international terrorism and weapons of mass destruction. — Jose Maria Aznar
- Ever since the Crusades, when Christians from western Europe were fighting holy wars against Muslims in the near east, western people have… — Karen Armstrong
- But human beings fall easily into despair, and from the very beginning we invented stories that enabled us to place our lives… — Karen Armstrong
- Zionism was originally a rebellion against religious Judaism and the PLO Charter was essentially secularist. But because the conflict was allowed to… — Karen Armstrong
- The health of the people is of supreme importance. All measures looking to their protection against the spread of contagious diseases and… — Chester A. Arthur
- We get information in the mail, the regular postal mail, encrypted or not, vet it like a regular news organization, format it… — Julian Assange