More Quotes by Ayn Rand
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.
I guard my treasures: my thoughts, my will, my freedom. And the greatest of these is freedom.
The evasion of responsibility is the major cause of most peoples frustrations and defeats.
The hardest thing to explain is the glaringly evident which everybody had decided not to see.
When you see corruption being rewarded and honesty becoming a self-sacrifice, you may know that your society is doomed
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.
A businessman cannot force you to buy his product; if he makes a mistake, he suffers the consequences; if he fails, he takes the loss. If bureaucrat makes a mistake, you suffer the consequences; if he fails, he passes the loss on to you.
If a society is to be free, its government has to be controlled.
Do you know the hallmark of the second-rater? It's resentment of another man's achievement.
To preserve one's mind intact through a modern college education is a test of courage and endurance, but the battle is worth it and the stakes are the highest possible to man: the survival of reason.
