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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.
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.
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.
If a society is to be free, its government has to be controlled.
The question isn't who is going to let me; it's who is going to stop me.
We can evade reality, but we cannot evade the consequences of evading reality
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.
Do not keep silent when your own ideas and values are being attacked. If a dictatorship ever comes to this country, it will be by the fault of those who keep silent. We are still free enough to speak. Do we have time? No one can tell.
Everyone has the right to make his own decisions, but none has the right to force his decision on others.
