Ayn Rand Christmas
“The best aspect of Christmas is the aspect usually decried by the mystics: the fact that Christmas has been commercialized. The gift-buying, stimulates an enormous…
Category: Quotes
Ayn Rand Ultimate conflict
“Today, the conflict has reached its ultimate climax; the choice is clear cut: either a new morality of rational self-interest, with its consequences of freedom,…
Ayn Rand on Bureaucrats
“The welfare recipients are not the worst part of the producers’ burden. The worst part are the bureaucrats, the government officials who are given the…
Ayn Rand Government Mortgage our Future
“There is only one institution that can arrogate to itself the power legally to trade by means of rubber checks: the government. And it is…
Ayn Rand on Businessmen
Businessmen are the symbol of a free society—the symbol of America. If and when they perish, civilization will perish. But if you wish to fight…
Ayn Rand on Society
“A society that robs an individual of the product of his effort, or attempts to limit the freedom of his mind, or compels him to…
Ayn Rand on Envy, Hatred of the Good
“Envy is regarded by most people as a petty, superficial emotion and, therefore, it serves as a semi-human cover for so inhuman an emotion that…
Ayn Rand Disarmed Ideologically
“Men cannot be enslaved politically until they have been disarmed ideologically. When they are so disarmed, it is the victims who take the lead in…
Ayn Rand Scapegoat
“The businessmen have served as the scapegoat for statist movements of all kinds: communist, fascist, or welfare. For whose sins and evils did the businessmen…
Ayn Rand on Omniscients
“Since men are neither omniscient nor infallible, they must be free to agree or disagree, to cooperate or to pursue their own independent course, each…
Ayn Rand is man free?
“Is man free? In mankind’s history, capitalism is the only system that answers: Yes.”
Ayn Rand on forms of Control
“I am opposed to all forms of control. I am for the separation of the state and economics, just as we had separation of state…
Ayn Rand Absurdities
“The uncontested absurdities of today are the accepted slogans of tomorrow.”
Milton Friedman on Minimum Wage
“Every economist knows that minimum wages either do nothing or cause inflation and unemployment. That’s not a statement, it’s a definition.”
Thomas Sowell on Equality
“The fundamental difference between equal treatment and equal performance is repeatedly confused. In performance terms, virtually no one is equal to anyone. The same individual…
Thomas Sowell on Society
“Mystical references to ‘society’ and its programs to ‘help’ may warm the hearts of the gullible but what it really means is putting more power…
Thomas Sowell on Emotions
“The problem isn’t that Johnny can’t read. The problem isn’t even that Johnny can’t think. The problem is that Johnny doesn’t know what thinking is;…
Elon Musk Federal Bureauracy
“The power of the unelected Federal bureaucracy has grown to become an unconstitutional ‘FOURTH BRANCH’ of government. Especially with the creation of their own internal…
Elon Musk on Corporations
“A lot of people think of government and corporations as different, but the government is simply the worst form of a corporation in the limit,…
Mises on Innovators
: “Innovators and creative geniuses cannot be reared in schools. They are precisely the men who defy what the school has taught them.”
Thomas Sowell on Politicians
The fact that so many successful politicians are such shameless liars is not only a reflection on them, it is also a reflection on us.…
Thomas Sowell on Government
“The fatal attraction of government is that it allows busybodies to impose decisions on others without paying any price themselves.”
Thomas Sowell on Education
“Ours may become the first civilization destroyed, not by the power of our enemies, but by the ignorance of our teachers and the dangerous nonsense…
Thomas Sowell on the left
“One of the bittersweet things about growing old is realizing how mistaken you were when you were young. As a young political leftist, I saw…
Thomas Sowell on Prosperity
“It is not money but the volume of goods and services which determines whether a country is poverty-stricken or prosperous.”
Schopenhauer
What the herd hates most is the one who thinks differently; it is not so much the opinion itself, but the audacity of wanting to…
Mises on Socialism
“Socialism is not in the least what it pretends to be. It is not the pioneer of a better and finer world, but the spoiler…
Hayek and Mises on Property
“Private property is the most important guarantee of freedom, not only for those who own property, but scarcely less for those who do not.” -Hayek…
Frederic Bastiat on Socialism
“Socialism, like the ancient ideas from which it springs, confuses the distinction between government and society. As a result of this, every time we object…
Mises, Worship of the State
“The worship of the state is the worship of force. There is no more dangerous menace to civilization than a government of incompetent, corrupt, or…
Friedrich Hayek on Emergencies
Emergencies have always been the pretext on which the safeguards of individual liberty have eroded.
Thoma Sowell on Politics and Economics
“The reason that politics usually wins out over economics is that economics is limited to what is possible. A good politician can always do better…
Thomas Sowell on Life
“Life, in general, has never been close to fair. So the pretense that government can make it fair, is a valuable and inexhaustible asset to…
Ludwig Von Mises Products of Free Enterprise
“Enjoying all the new products which free enterprise provides, they are tormented by one thought only, that some people have become rich in creating these…
Thomas Sowell on Greed
Those who are always accusing people in the private sector of greed, almost never accuse government of greed, no matter what it does.
Ludwig von Mises On Man
“If one rejects laissez-faire on account of man’s fallibility and moral weakness, one must, for the same reason, also reject every kind of government action.”—…
Friedric Hayek Economic control
“To be controlled in our economic pursuits means to be controlled in everything.”— Friedrich Hayek
Objectobot on Capitalism
“It is astounding hypocrisy that capitalism, the most rapid system of progress and innovation ever created, is condemned for an instance of imperfection, while socialism,…
Bastiat on property rights
“As long as it is admitted that the law may be diverted from its true purpose–that it may violate property instead of protecting it–then everyone…
Ayn Rand Root of Production
“Have you ever looked for the root of production? Take a look at an electric generator and dare tell yourself that it was created by…
Ayn Rand, what is freedom?
“But what is freedom? Freedom from what? There is nothing to take a man’s freedom away from him, save other men. To be free, a…
Ayn Rand the New Ridicals
Let those who do care about the future, those willing to crusade for a perfect society, realize that the new radicals are the fighters for…
Ayn Rand, a right is a moral principle
A “right” is a moral principle defining and sanctioning a man’s freedom of action in a social context. There is only one fundamental right, all…
The businessman carries scientific discoveries from the laboratory of the inventor
The businessman carries scientific discoveries from the laboratory of the inventor toindustrial plants, and transforms them into material products that fill men’s physical needs and…
Ayn Rand: Businessman vs Bureaucrat
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.…
Ayn Rand goals of socialism abject failure
“The alleged goals of socialism were the abolition of poverty and the achievement of general prosperity. The results have been a terrifying failure. Instead of…
The Simpsons Ayn Rand on Racism
Racism is the lowest, most crudely primitive form of collectivism. It is the notion of ascribing moral, social or political significance to a man’s genetic…
Ayn Rand on the Mind
You’ve been told your mind is incompetent tounderstand, that certainty is impossible, that there are no absolutes, that life is meaningless. It’s not true.
Ayn Rand acting on Altruist beliefs
Would you be willing and able to act on the belief that altruism is a moral ideal. That you must sacrificeeverything, everything you love, seek,…
Ayn Rand Proper role of government
The only proper purpose of a government is to protect man’s rights, which means, to protect him from physical violence. But a government that initiates…
Ayn Rand Facism vs Communism
Fascism and Communism are not two opposites, but two rival gangs fighting over the same territory. Both are variants of statism, based on the collectivist…
Ayn Rand on America’s Wealth
If all the wealth spent on personal consumption by all the rich of the United States were expropriated and distributed among our population, it would…
Ayn Rand Rationalization
Since an emotion isexperienced as an immediate primary, but is, in fact, acomplex, derivative sum, it permits men to practice one of the ugliest of…
Ayn Rand, Entitlements and Rights
If some men are entitled by right to the products of the work of others, it means that those others are deprived of rights… Any…
Ayn Rand on Truth and Faith
“An error made on your own is safer than ten truths accepted on faith, because the first leaves you the means to correct it, but…
Thomas Sowell Honest Man
It’s amazing how much panic one honest man can spread amount a multitude of hypocrites.
Thomas Sowell on Rent Control
Not a single apartment building was built in Melbourne for years after World War 2 because of rent control laws.
Bastiat – The Law
“As long as it is admitted that the law may be diverted from its true purpose–that it may violate property instead of protecting it–then everyone…
Ayn Rand Altruism Corrupts
It is altruism that has corrupted and perverted human benevolence by regarding the giver as an object of immolation, and the receiver as a helplessly…
Ayn Rand on Consent
Any undertaking that involves more than one man, requires the voluntary consent of every participant. Every one of them has the right to make his…
Ayn Rand Purpose of Morality
The purpose of morality is to teach you, not to suffer and die, but to enjoy yourself and live.
Ayn Rand, Individual vs the State
The world conflict of today is the conflict of the individual against the state… The names change, but the essence, and the results remain the…
Ayn Rand, Freedom in Political context
Freedom, in a political context, means freedom from government coercion. It does not mean freedom from the landlord, or freedom from the employer, or freedom from…
Ayn Rand on Egalitarianism
The motive of egalitarianism… is not the desire to help the poor, but to destroy the competent.
Ayn Rand on Hatred of the Good
“Envy is regarded by most people as a petty, superficial emotion and, therefore, it serves as a semihuman cover for so inhuman an emotion that…
To oppose war oppose statism
“If men want to oppose war, it is statism that they must oppose.”
Principle of Individual Rights
“If men are to live together in a peaceful, productive, rational society and deal with oneanother to mutual benefit, they must accept the basic social…
Ayn Rand on Individualists
“Do not make the mistake of the ignorant who think that an individualist is a man who says:“I’ll do as I please at everybody else’s…
Civilized Society
“The precondition of a civilized society is the barring of physical force from socialrelationships, thus establishing the principle that if men wish to deal with…
Society is Doomed
“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…
Consistency Wins
“When men share the same basic premise, it is the most consistent ones who win. So long as men accept the altruist morality, they will…
Coming Looters
“Run for your life from any man who tells you that money is evil. That sentence is theleper’s bell of an approaching looter.”
So long as government holds power over the economy.
“So long as a government holds the power of economic control, it will necessarily create a special elite, an aristocracy of pull, it will attract the…
Futile to fight
“It is futile to fight against, if one does not know what one is fighting for. A merely negative trend or movement cannot win and,…
Thatcher on standards of living
The most debilitating myth was that the state could perpetually provide a higher standard of living regardless of individual effort. It can’t and it never…
Thomas Sowell Stupidest way to do things
It’s hard to imagine a more stupid or more dangerous way of making decisions than by putting those decisions in the hands of people who…
Thomas Sowell on dumbed down education
One of the painful signs of years of dumbed-down education is how many people are unable to make a coherent argument. They can vent their…
Thomas Sowell, Left’s Ideas Do Not Work
“The most fundamental fact about the ideas of the political left is that they do not work. Therefore we should not be surprised to find…
Ayn Rand on achieving something good by force
“An attempt to achieve the good by force is like an attempt to provide a man with a picturegallery at the price of cutting out…
Ayn Rand, Know what you are fighting for
“It is futile to fight against, if one does not know what one is fighting for. A merely negative trend or movement cannot win and,…
Ayn Rand Government and Economic Control
“So long as a government holds the power of economic control, it will necessarily create a special elite, an aristocracy of pull, it will attract the…
Ayn Rand on Economic vs Political Power
“Economic power is exercised by means of a positive, by offering men a reward, an incentive, a payment, a value. political power is exercised by…
Ayn Rand Justice by Inflation
“Justice does exist in the world, whether people choose to practice it or not. The men of ability are being avenged. The avenger is reality.…
Ayn Rand Power Seekers
“Power seekers have always known that if men are to be made submissive, the obstacle is not their feelings, their wishes or their instincts, but…
Ayn Rand Rational Action of an Individual
“Since knowledge, thinking, and rational action are properties of the individual, since the choice to exercise his rational faculty or not depends on the individual,…
Ayn Rand Rational Self Interest
“When one speaks of man’s right to exist for his own sake, for his own rational self-interest, most people assume automatically that this means his…
Ayn Rand on Hedonism
“Hedonism is the doctrine which holds that the good is whatever gives you pleasure and, therefore, pleasure is the standard of morality. Objectivism holds that…
Ayn Rand on the New Left
The New Left does not portend a revolution, as its press agents claim, but a Putsch. A revolution is the climax of a long philosophical development…
Ayn Rand on Trade
“A trader is a man who earns what he gets and does not give or take the undeserved. He does not treat men as masters…
Ayn Rand, More On Emtions
An emotion as such tells you nothing about reality, beyond the fact that something makes you feel something. Without a ruthlessly honest commitment to introspection—to…
Ayn Rand on Conflict of Interests
“There is no conflict of interests among men who do not desire the unearned, who do not make sacrifices nor accept them, who deal with…
Ayn Rand on Emotions
Emotions are inherent in your nature, but their content is dictated by your mind.
Ayn Rand – Sphere of Rights
“Within the sphere of your own rights, your freedom is absolute. A right cannot be violated except by physical force. Therefore, we can draw a…
Ayn Rand on Capitalism
If capitalism had never existed, any honest humanitarian should have been struggling to invent it. But when you see men struggling to evade its existence,…
Ayn Rand, Force and Mind
Force and mind are opposites; morality ends where a gun begins.
ObjectoBot Original: Any Rand Office Meme
The man who produces while others dispose of his product is a slave.
Ayn Rand on Helping
The virtue involved in helping those one loves is not “selflessness” or “sacrifice,” but integrity. Integrity is loyalty to one’s convictions and values, it is…
Ayn Rand on what is Slavery?
What is the basic, the essential, the crucial principle that differentiates freedom from slavery? It is the principle of voluntary action versus physical coercion or…
Ayn Rand on What Rights Are
The concept of individual rights is so prodigious a feat of political thinking that few men grasp it fully and two hundred years have not…
Ayn Rand on Collectivist losers
The acceleration of collectivism’s advance is not a march of winners, but a blind stampede of losers. Collectivism has lost the battle for min’s minds,…
Ayn Rand on Minorities
The smallest minority on earth is the individual. Those who deny individual rights, cannot claim to be defenders of minorities.
Ayn Rand on Mediocrity
Anyone is still free to say, write and publish anything he pleases. Yet men keep silent while their culture is perishing from an entrenched institutionalized…
Ayn Rand on Altruists and Suffering
When no actual suffering can be found, the altruists are compelled to invent or manufacture it.
Ayn Rand on Man of Virtue
There comes a point, in the defeat of any man of virtue, when his own consent is needed for evil to win.
Ayn Rand on Statist Rulers
When a statist ruler exhausts his own country’s economy, he attacks his neighbors. It is his only means of postponing internal collapse and prolonging his…
Ayn Rand on Wars
Wars are the second greatest evil that human societies can perpetrate. The first is a dictatorship, the enslavement of their own citizens, which is the…
Ayn Rand, The Tribal Notion of The Common Good
“The tribal notion of “the common good” has served as the moral justification of most social systems—and of all tyrannies—in history. The degree of a…
Ayn Rand, Escape from Socialism
“When one observes the nightmare of the desperate efforts made by hundreds of thousands of people struggling to escape from the socialized countries of Europe,…
Ayn Rand, Socialism’s Economic Collapse
“Instead of prosperity, socialism has brought economic paralysis and/or collapse to every country that tried it. The degree of socialization has been the degree of…
Ayn Rand Political/Intellectual Freedom
“Intellectual freedom cannot exist without political freedom; political freedom cannot exist without economic freedom; a free mind and a free market are corollaries.”
Ayn Rand, The Battle for Morality
“For centuries, the battle of morality was fought between those who claimed that your life belongs to God and those who claimed that it belongs…
Ayn Rand on people embracing collectivism
“People are not embracing collectivism because they have accepted badeconomics. They are accepting bad economics because they have embracedcollectivism. “You cannot reverse cause and effect. And you cannot destroy the causeby…
The essence of Ayn Rand’s Philosophy.
“My philosophy, in essence, is the concept of man as a heroic being, with his own happiness as the moral purpose of his life, and…
Ayn Rand, Liberals are champions of dictatorship.
“The liberals are afraid to identify their program by its proper name. They advocate every specific step, measure, policy, and principle of statism, but squirm…
Ayn Rand, The Right to Life
“The right to life is the source of all rights—and the right to property is their only implementation. Without property rights, no other rights are…
Walter Williams on Capitalism
“Prior to capitalism, the way people amassed great wealth was by looting, plundering and enslaving their fellow man. Capitalism made it possible to become wealthy…
Ayn Rand, what is Morality?
“What is morality? Judgement to distinguish right and wrong, vision to see the truth, and courage to act upon it, dedication to that which is…
Thomas Sowell on the Constitution.
“The Constitution cannot protect you, if you don’t protect the Constitution with your votes against anyone who violates it. Those government officials who want more…
Ayn Rand, what is freedom?
“But what is freedom? Freedom from what? There is nothing to take a man’s freedom away from him, save other men. To be free, a…
Ayn Rand on Infectious Disease
“Requiring inoculation against disease is definitely not a job for the government. If it is medically proven that a certain inoculation is desirable, those who…
Ayn Rand on the Welfare State
Morally and economically, the welfare state creates an ever accelerating downward pull. Morally, the chance to satisfy demands by force spreads the demands wider and…
Objectivists
We are radicals for capitalism; we are fighting for that philosophical base which capitalism did not have and without which it was doomed to perish.”
Ayn Rand, no Compromise between Freedom and Control
There can be no compromise between freedom and government controls; to accept “just a few controls” is to surrender the principle of inalienable individual rights…
Ayn Rand, on man’s character
“Let me give you a tip on a clue to men’s characters: the man who damns money has obtained it dishonorably; the man who respects…
Ayn Rand, on explaining
” The hardest thing to explain is the glaringly evident which everybody had decided not to see. “
Ayn Rand on Lobbies and Pressure Groups
“So long as a concept such as “the public interest” (or the “social” or “national” or “international” interest) is regarded as a valid principle to…
Ayn Rand, When a Society is Doomed
“When you see that trading is done, not by consent, but by compulsion – when you see that in order to produce, you need to…
Ayn Rand on Liberals and Conservatives
” The “liberals” are constantly asserting that they represent the future, that they are “new,” “progressive,” “forward-looking,” etc.—and they denounce the “conservatives” as old-fashioned representatives…
The world you desire can be won
“Do not let your fire go out, spark by irreplaceable spark in the hopeless swamps of the not-quite, the not-yet, and the not-at-all. Do not…
Ayn Rand on Collectivism
“Collectivism, as an intellectual power and a moral ideal, is dead. But freedom and individualism, and their political expression, capitalism, have not yet been discovered.”
Ayn Rand, Government power to crack down on criminals
“There’s no way to rule innocent men. The only power any government has is the power to crack down on criminals. Well, when there aren’t…
Ayn Rand on Chrismas
“The charming aspect of Christmas is the fact that it expresses good will in a cheerful, happy, benevolent, non-sacrificial way. One says: “Merry Christmas”—not “Weep…
Ayn Rand, America’s Abundance
“America’s abundance was created… by the productive genius of free men who pursued their own personal interests and the making of their own private fortunes……
Money is the root of evil?
“Run for your life from any man who tells you that money is evil. That sentence is the leper’s bell of an approaching looter. “
Ayn Rand, why people embrace collectivism
“People are not embracing collectivism because they have accepted bad economics. They are accepting bad economics because they have embraced collectivism.”
Ayn Rand on Socialism
“Instead of prosperity, socialism has brought economic paralysis and/or collapse to every country that tried it. The degree of socialization has been the degree of…
Ayn Rand on Feminists
Ayn Rand makes funny joke at the expense of modern feminists.
Ayn Rand on Expropriation of Wealth
“If all the wealth spent on personal consumption by all the rich of the United States were expropriated and distributed among our population, it would…
Ayn Rand on Poverty
If concern with poverty and human suffering were the collectivists’ motive, they would have become champions of capitalism long ago.
Dependence breeds hatred
Dependence breeds hatred. Only free men can afford to be benevolent. Only free men can love and respect one another.
The greatest good
“The greatest good for the greatest number is one of the most vicious slogans ever foisted on humanity.”
The source of Rights
“The source of man’s rights is not divine law or a congressional law, but the law of identity. A is A ___ and man is…
Ayn Rand, Money is the barometer of Society’s Virtue
“Money is the barometer of a society’s virtue. When you see that trading is done, not by consent, but by compulsion… when you see corruption…
Ayn Rand on Public Property
“Since “public property” is a collectivist fiction, since the public as a whole can neither use nor dispose of its “property,” that “property” will always be taken over by some political…
Ayn Rand Poverty and Abundance
“If concern for human poverty and suffering were one’s primary motive, one would seek to discover their cause. One would not fail to ask: Why…
Ayn Rand on Individual Rights
Individual rights are not subject to a public vote; a majority has no right to vote away the rights of a minority; the political function of rights is precisely to protect minorities from…
John Galt Speech
“You called it selfish and cruel that men should trade value for value – you have now established an unselfish society where they trade extortion…
Ayn Rand on America
“America did not melt men into the gray conformity of a collective: she united them by means of protecting their right to individuality.”
Ayn Rand on the Common Good
“The common good of a collective, a race, a class, a state, was the claim and justification of every tyranny ever established over men.”
Ayn Rand on America
” I can say—not as a patriotic bromide, but with full knowledge of the necessary metaphysical, epistemological, ethical, political and esthetic roots—that the United States…
Ayn Rand Atlas Shrugged
“When you have made evil the means of survival, do not expect men to remain good. Do not expect them to stay moral and lose…
Ayn Rand the purpose of Morality
“The purpose of morality is to teach you, not to suffer and die, but to enjoy yourself and live.”
Ayn Rand Capitalism the Unknown Ideal
“Capitalism has created the highest standard of living ever known on earth. The evidence is incontrovertible. The contrast between West and East Berlin is the…
Ayn Rand on Civilization and Privacy
“Civilization is the progress toward a society of privacy. The savage’s whole existence is public, ruled by the laws of his tribe. Civilization is the…
Ayn Rand on Capitalism and Greed
“Capitalism has been called a system of greed, yet it is the system that raised the standard of living of its poorest citizens to heights…
Ayn Rand on Fallacies of Socialism
“The fallacies and contradictions in the economic theories of socialism were exposed and refuted time and time again, in the Nineteenth Century as well as…
Ayn Rand on Declaration of Independence
“If it is every proper for men to kneel, we should kneel when we read the Declaration of Independence, the greatest document in human history.”
Ayn Rand on Fascism vs Communism
“It is a matter of record that in the German Election of 1933, the Communist Party was ordered by its leaders to vote for the…
Ayn Rand on Work
“What you owe yourself is to work for your living: what you owe your neighbor is not to interfere with his work.”
Ayn Rand on Free Society
“If a society is to be free, its government must be controlled.”
Ayn Rand, Difference between political and other types of power
From Capitalism the Unknown Ideal. “The difference between political power and any other kind of social power, between government and any private organization, is the…
Ayn Rand, Existence exists
“Existence exists-and the act of grasping that statement implies two corollary axioms: That something exists which one perceives and that one exists possessing consciousness, consciousness…
Ayn Rand on Communist’s intentions
“It is the Communists’ intention to make people think that personal success is somehow achieved at the expense of others and that every successful man…
Ayn Rand on the theory of value
Ayn Rand eloquently explains where economic value comes from. “The economic value of a man’s work is determined, on a free market, by a single…
The best argument for free trade
In time of war, we blockade our enemies in order to prevent them from getting goods from us. In time of peace, we do to…
Altruistic Murder
“The most dreadful butchers were the most sincere. They believed in the perfect society reached through the guillotine and the firing squad. Nobody questioned…
