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States Quotes by Ayn Rand
- The difference between a welfare state and a totalitarian state is a matter of time.
- 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…
- 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…
- I am opposed to all forms of control; I am for an absolute laissez faire, free, unregulated economy. I am for the separation of the…
- But a few understand that building is a great symbol we live in our minds, and existence is the attempt to bring that life into…
- The first society in history whose leaders were neither Attilas nor Witch Doctors, a society led, dominated and created by the Producers, was the United…
- And what is the state but a servant and a convenience for a large number of people, just like the electric light and the plumbing…
- I sat there beside him till morning - and as I watched his face in the starlight, then the first ray of the sun on…
- There can be no compromise between freedom and government controls; to accept 'just a few controls' is to surrender the principle of inalienable individual rights…
- I can say-not as a patriotic bromide, but with full knowledge of the necessary metaphysical, epistemological , ethical, political and esthetic roots-that the United States…
- Self-esteem is reliance on one's power to think. It cannot be replaced by one's power to deceive. The self-confidence of a scientist and the self-confidence…
- 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,…
- Of all the statist violations of individual rights in a mixed economy, the military draft is the worst. It is an abrogation of rights. It…
- Collectivism means the subjugation of the individual to a group - whether to a race, class or state does not matter. Collectivism holds that man…
- 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…
- Government control of the economy, no matter in whose behalf, has been the source of all the evils in our industrial society -- and the…
- Capitalism has been called nationalistic - yet it is the only system that banished ethnicity, and made it possible, in the United States, for men…
- Happiness is that state of consciousness which proceeds from the achievement of one's values.
- If a drought strikes them, animals perish--man builds irrigation canals; if a flood strikes them, animals perish--man builds dams; if a carnivorous pack attacks them,…
- Observe how many people evade, rationalize and drive their minds into a state of blind stupor, in dread of discovering that those they deal with-…
- Happiness is a state of non-contradictory joy--a joy without penalty or guilt, a joy that does not clash with any of your values and does…
More States Quotes
- The spirit of Ubuntu, that once led Haiti to emerge as the first independent black nation in 1804, helped Venezuela, Colombia and… — Jean-Bertrand Aristide
- A constitution is the arrangement of magistracies in a state. — Aristotle
- The young are permanently in a state resembling intoxication. — Aristotle
- Inferiors revolt in order that they may be equal, and equals that they may be superior. Such is the state of mind… — Aristotle
- The state comes into existence for the sake of life and continues to exist for the sake of good life. — Aristotle
- Excellence, then, is a state concerned with choice, lying in a mean, relative to us, this being determined by reason and in… — Aristotle
- I mean there's enormous pressures to harmonize freedom of speech legislation and transparency legislation around the world - within the E.U., between… — Julian Assange
- In the United States Christmas has become the rape of an idea. — Richard Bach
- I think, as a general matter, clearly, the United States globally supports the development of democracy and the democratic yearnings of all… — Richard Armitage
- Fundamentalists are not friends of democracy. And that includes your fundamentalists in the United States. — Karen Armstrong
- Yet, so far from laboring to know the forbidden tree of worldly pleasures and its various fruits, man gives himself up to… — Johann Arndt
- I may be president of the United States, but my private life is nobody's damned business. — Chester A. Arthur