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More Quotes by Ayn Rand
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.
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 smallest minority on earth is the individual. Those who deny individual rights cannot claim to be defenders of minorities.
It is not fools that I seek to address.
You can ignore reality, but you can't ignore the consequences of ignoring reality.
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.
The evasion of responsibility is the major cause of most peoples frustrations and defeats.
Do you know the hallmark of the second-rater? It's resentment of another man's achievement.
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.
