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- The doctrine that 'human rights' are superior to 'property rights' simply means that some human beings have the right to make property out of others.
- There is no difference between communism and socialism, except in the means of achieving the same ultimate end: communism proposes to enslave men by force,…
- The end does not justify the means. No one's rights can be secured by the violation of the rights of others.
- There are only two means by which men can deal with one another: guns or logic. Force or persuasion. Those who know that they cannot…
- Collectivism holds that the individual has no rights, that his life and work belong to the group (to "society," to the tribe, the state, the…
- The only proper purpose of a government is to protect man's rights, which means: to protect him from physical violence.
- A reader has to be concerned only with the end result; unless he chooses to analyze it, he does not have to know by what…
- Capitalism is the only system that can make freedom, individuality, and the pursuit of values possible in practice. When I say 'capitalism,' I mean a…
- My pride and my power of vision were all that I owned when I started - and whatever I achieved, was achieved by means of…
- "Mediocrity" doesn't mean average intelligence, it means an average intelligence that resents and envies its betters.
- 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…
- Unjust laws have to be fought ideologically; they cannot be fought or corrected by means of mere disobedience and futile martyrdom.
- Ask yourself why totalitarian dictatorships find it necessary to pour money and effort into propaganda for their own helpless, chained, gagged slaves, who have no…
- The right to life is the source of all rights -- and the right to property is their only implementation. Without property rights, no other…
- An animal is equipped for sustaining its life; its senses provide it with an automatic code of action, an automatic knowledge of what is good…
- Truth is the recognition of reality; reason, man's only means of knowledge, is his only standard of truth.
- If it were true that men could achieve their good by means of turning some men into sacrificial animals, and . . . if I…
- Ideas cannot be fought except by means of better ideas. The battle consists, not of opposing, but of exposing; not of denouncing, but of disproving;…
- The right to life means that a man has the right to support his life by his own work (on any economic level, as high…
- You have chosen to risk your lives for the defense of this country. I will not insult you by saying that you are dedicated to…
- Whether it’s a symphony or a coal mine, all work is an act of creating and comes from the same source: from an inviolate capacity…
- When men abandon reason, physical force becomes their only means of dealing with one another and of settling disagreements.
- Morally, the promise of an impossible “right” to economic security is an infamous attempt to abrogate the concept of rights. It can and does mean…
- There is a fundamental conviction which some people never acquire, some hold only in their youth, and a few hold to the end of their…
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