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More Quotes by Ayn Rand
We can evade reality, but we cannot evade the consequences of evading reality
You can ignore reality, but you can't ignore the consequences of ignoring reality.
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.
If a society is to be free, its government has to be controlled.
Everyone has the right to make his own decisions, but none has the right to force his decision on others.
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 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.
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.
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.
