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Social Quotes by Ayn Rand
- The right to vote is a consequence, not a primary cause, of a free social system - and its value depends on the constitutional structure…
- 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 government…
- If workers struggle for higher wages, this is hailed as "social gains", if businessmen struggle for higher profits, this is damned as "selfish greed".
- As a cultural-intellectual power and a moral ideal, collectivism died in World War II. If we are still rolling in its direction, it is only…
- You who prattle that morality is social and that man would need no morality on a desert island - it is on a desert island…
- 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…
- Capitalism is a social system based on the recognition of individual rights, including property rights, in which all property is privately owned.
- Laissez-faire capitalism is the only social system based on the recognition of individual rights and, therefore, the only system that bans force from social relationships.
- 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…
- The social system based on and consonant with the altruist morality-with the code of self-sacrifice- is socialism, in all or any of its variants: fascism,…
- Racism is the lowest, most crudely primitive form of collectivism. It is the notion of ascribing moral, social or political significance to a man’s genetic…
- Since nature does not endow all men with equal beauty or equal intelligence, and the faculty of volition leads men to make different choices, the…
- You have been called selfish for the courage of acting on your own judgement and bearing sole responsibility for your own life. You have been…
More Social Quotes
- The defiance of established authority, religious and secular, social and political, as a world-wide phenomenon may well one day be accounted the… — Hannah Arendt
- Stories in which the destruction of society occurs are explorations of social fears and issues that filmmakers, novelists, playwrights, painters have been… — J. J. Abrams
- Music is the social act of communication among people, a gesture of friendship, the strongest there is. — Malcolm Arnold
- Social media is called social media for a reason. It lends itself to sharing rather than horn-tooting. — Margaret Atwood
- I was once a graduate student in Victorian literature, and I believe as the Victorian novelists did, that a novel isn't simply… — Margaret Atwood
- If social stability goes pear-shaped, you have a choice between anarchy and dictatorship. Most people will opt for more security, even if… — Margaret Atwood
- It's frightening how easy it is to commit murder in America. Just a drink too much. I can see myself doing it.… — Wystan Hugh Auden
- As the most social apes, we inhabit a mirror-world in which every important relationship, whether with spouse, friend or child, shapes the… — Diane Ackerman
- The average Nigerian person has come to reconcile himself with the fact that his or her social progress remain essentially in his… — Ibrahim Babangida
- You don't see Indians in Hollywood films around which a story can revolve. As soon as we have a social presence in… — Amitabh Bachchan
- I am a woman with a calling for social struggle and public service. — Michelle Bachelet
- Chile has done a lot to rid itself of poverty, especially extreme poverty, since the return to democracy. But we still have… — Michelle Bachelet