More Quotes by Ayn Rand
I guard my treasures: my thoughts, my will, my freedom. And the greatest of these is freedom.
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.
When you see corruption being rewarded and honesty becoming a self-sacrifice, you may know that your society is doomed
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.
A businessman cannot force you to buy his product; if he makes a mistake, he suffers the consequences; if he fails, he takes the loss. If bureaucrat makes a mistake, you suffer the consequences; if he fails, he passes the loss on to you.
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.
The hardest thing to explain is the glaringly evident which everybody had decided not to see.
The evasion of responsibility is the major cause of most peoples frustrations and defeats.
