More Quotes by Ayn Rand
I guard my treasures: my thoughts, my will, my freedom. And the greatest of these is freedom.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
You can ignore reality, but you can't ignore the consequences of ignoring reality.
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.
