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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.
― Ayn Rand
Suicide
Mean
Men
Ayn Rand
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.
― Ayn Rand
Mistake
Suffering
Businessman
Ayn Rand
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.
― Ayn Rand
Honesty
Sacrifice
Men
Ayn Rand
It is not fools that I seek to address.
― Ayn Rand
Addresses
Fool
Ayn Rand
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.
― Ayn Rand
Gun
Government
Historical
Ayn Rand
To preserve one's mind intact through a modern college education is a test of courage and endurance, but the battle is worth it and the stakes are the highest possible to man: the survival of reason.
― Ayn Rand
Teaching
College
Men
Ayn Rand
We can evade reality, but we cannot evade the consequences of evading reality
― Ayn Rand
Reality
Oil
Liberty
Ayn Rand
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.
― Ayn Rand
Government
People
Support
Ayn Rand
The smallest minority on earth is the individual. Those who deny individual rights cannot claim to be defenders of minorities.
― Ayn Rand
Philosophy
Humor
Rights
Ayn Rand
The evasion of responsibility is the major cause of most peoples frustrations and defeats.
― Ayn Rand
Responsibility
Frustration
Causes
Ayn Rand
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.
― Ayn Rand
Country
Courage
Freedom
Ayn Rand
Do you know the hallmark of the second-rater? It's resentment of another man's achievement.
― Ayn Rand
Men
Envy
Hallmark
Ayn Rand
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.
― Ayn Rand
Men
Rights
Criminals
Ayn Rand
The difference between a welfare state and a totalitarian state is a matter of time.
― Ayn Rand
Differences
Liberty
Matter
Ayn Rand
The question isn't who is going to let me; it's who is going to stop me.
― Ayn Rand
Inspirational
Motivational
Change
Ayn Rand
When you see corruption being rewarded and honesty becoming a self-sacrifice, you may know that your society is doomed
― Ayn Rand
Honesty
Sacrifice
Self
Ayn Rand
I guard my treasures: my thoughts, my will, my freedom. And the greatest of these is freedom.
― Ayn Rand
Gratitude
Treasure
MyThoughts
Ayn Rand
Everyone has the right to make his own decisions, but none has the right to force his decision on others.
― Ayn Rand
Decision
Liberty
Economics
Ayn Rand
If a society is to be free, its government has to be controlled.
― Ayn Rand
Government
Controlled
Ifs
Ayn Rand
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.
― Ayn Rand
Champion
Majority
Slavery
Ayn Rand
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