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More Quotes by Ayn Rand
Do you know the hallmark of the second-rater? It's resentment of another man's achievement.
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.
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.
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.
It is not fools that I seek to address.
The smallest minority on earth is the individual. Those who deny individual rights cannot claim to be defenders of minorities.
The difference between a welfare state and a totalitarian state is a matter of time.
Everyone has the right to make his own decisions, but none has the right to force his decision on others.
You can ignore reality, but you can't ignore the consequences of ignoring reality.
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.
