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More Quotes by Ayn Rand
Everyone has the right to make his own decisions, but none has the right to force his decision on others.
Inflation is not caused by the actions of private citizens, but by the government: by an artificial expansion of the money supply required to support deficit spending. No private embezzlers or bank robbers in history have ever plundered people's savings on a scale comparable to the plunder perpetrated by the fiscal policies of statist governments.
The evasion of responsibility is the major cause of most peoples frustrations and defeats.
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, socialism - by vote. It is merely the difference between murder and suicide.
I guard my treasures: my thoughts, my will, my freedom. And the greatest of these is freedom.
The question isn't who is going to let me; it's who is going to stop me.
When you see that trading is done, not by consent, but by compulsion - when you see that in order to produce, you need to obtain permission from men who produce nothing - when you see that money is flowing to those who deal, not in goods, but in favors - when you see that men get richer by graft and by pull than by work, and your laws don't protect you against them, but protect them against you - when you see corruption being rewarded and honesty becoming a self-sacrifice - you may know that your society is doomed.
You can ignore reality, but you can't ignore the consequences of ignoring reality.
The hardest thing to explain is the glaringly evident which everybody had decided not to see.
We are fast approaching the stage of the ultimate inversion: the stage where the government is free to do anything it pleases, while the citizens may act only by permission; which is the stage of the darkest periods of human history, the stage of rule by brute force.
