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Politics Quotes by Ayn Rand
- I am interested in politics only in order to secure and protect freedom.
- There are no little people in America. There are only people, equal before the law, yearning to breathe free and wanting to achieve the best…
- I am only concerned with politics so I may see the day when I don't have to be concerned with politics.
- Capitalism has been called nationalistic - yet it is the only system that banished ethnicity, and made it possible, in the United States, for men…
- Independence is the recognition of the fact that yours is the responsibility of judgement and nothing can help you escape it - that no substitute…
- It only stands to reason that where there's sacrifice, there's someone collecting the sacrificial offerings. Where there's service, there is someone being served. The man…
- Every government interference in the economy consists of giving an unearned benefit, extorted by force, to some men at the expense of others.
- The spread of evil is the symptom of a vacuum. Whenever evil wins, it is only by default: by the moral failure of those who…
- America's abundance was created not by public sacrifices to the common good, but by the productive genius of free men who pursued their own personal…
- I am interested in politics so that one day I will not have to be interested in politics.
More Politics Quotes
- The most radical revolutionary will become a conservative the day after the revolution. — Hannah Arendt
- No cause is left but the most ancient of all, the one, in fact, that from the beginning of our history has… — Hannah Arendt
- Wherever the relevance of speech is at stake, matters become political by definition, for speech is what makes man a political being. — Hannah Arendt
- Under every stone lurks a politician. — Aristophanes
- Democracy is when the indigent, and not the men of property, are the rulers. — Aristotle
- In a democracy the poor will have more power than the rich, because there are more of them, and the will of… — Aristotle
- A tyrant must put on the appearance of uncommon devotion to religion. Subjects are less apprehensive of illegal treatment from a ruler… — Aristotle
- Both oligarch and tyrant mistrust the people, and therefore deprive them of their arms. — Aristotle
- Politicians also have no leisure, because they are always aiming at something beyond political life itself, power and glory, or happiness. — Aristotle
- Republics decline into democracies and democracies degenerate into despotisms. — Aristotle
- Man is by nature a political animal. — Aristotle
- Therefore, the good of man must be the end of the science of politics. — Aristotle