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More Quotes by Ayn Rand
The smallest minority on earth is the individual. Those who deny individual rights cannot claim to be defenders of minorities.
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.
If a society is to be free, its government has to be controlled.
The evasion of responsibility is the major cause of most peoples frustrations and defeats.
I guard my treasures: my thoughts, my will, my freedom. And the greatest of these is freedom.
It is not fools that I seek to address.
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.
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.
When you see corruption being rewarded and honesty becoming a self-sacrifice, you may know that your society is doomed
