More Quotes by Ayn Rand
The evasion of responsibility is the major cause of most peoples frustrations and defeats.
The smallest minority on earth is the individual. Those who deny individual rights cannot claim to be defenders of minorities.
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.
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.
We can evade reality, but we cannot evade the consequences of evading reality
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.
Do you know the hallmark of the second-rater? It's resentment of another man's achievement.
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.
When you see corruption being rewarded and honesty becoming a self-sacrifice, you may know that your society is doomed
