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.
The evasion of responsibility is the major cause of most peoples frustrations and defeats.
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.
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 directed at private citizens, but against the government-as an explicit declaration that individual rights supersede any public or social power.
When you see corruption being rewarded and honesty becoming a self-sacrifice, you may know that your society is doomed
The majority of those who are loosely identified by the term 'liberals' are afraid to let themselves discover that what they advocate is statism. They want to keep all the advantages and effects of capitalism, while destroying the cause, and they want to establish statism without its necessary effects. They do not want to know or to admit that they are the champions of dictatorship and slavery.
The smallest minority on earth is the individual. Those who deny individual rights cannot claim to be defenders of minorities.
You can ignore reality, but you can't ignore the consequences of ignoring reality.
I guard my treasures: my thoughts, my will, my freedom. And the greatest of these is freedom.
