More Quotes by Ayn Rand
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.
The hardest thing to explain is the glaringly evident which everybody had decided not to see.
You can ignore reality, but you can't ignore the consequences of ignoring reality.
We can evade reality, but we cannot evade the consequences of evading reality
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 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.
Do you know the hallmark of the second-rater? It's resentment of another man's achievement.
The smallest minority on earth is the individual. Those who deny individual rights cannot claim to be defenders of minorities.
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.
I guard my treasures: my thoughts, my will, my freedom. And the greatest of these is freedom.
