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More Quotes by Ayn Rand
When you see corruption being rewarded and honesty becoming a self-sacrifice, you may know that your society is doomed
The difference between a welfare state and a totalitarian state is a matter of time.
We can evade reality, but we cannot evade the consequences of evading reality
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.
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.
It is not fools that I seek to address.
The question isn't who is going to let me; it's who is going to stop me.
Do you know the hallmark of the second-rater? It's resentment of another man's achievement.
The hardest thing to explain is the glaringly evident which everybody had decided not to see.
I guard my treasures: my thoughts, my will, my freedom. And the greatest of these is freedom.