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More Quotes by Ayn Rand
If a society is to be free, its government has to be controlled.
I guard my treasures: my thoughts, my will, my freedom. And the greatest of these is freedom.
The difference between a welfare state and a totalitarian state is a matter of time.
When you see corruption being rewarded and honesty becoming a self-sacrifice, you may know that your society is doomed
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.
We can evade reality, but we cannot evade the consequences of evading reality
The evasion of responsibility is the major cause of most peoples frustrations and defeats.
You can ignore reality, but you can't ignore the consequences of ignoring reality.
The hardest thing to explain is the glaringly evident which everybody had decided not to see.
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.
