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Ayn Rand on Collectivism
“Collectivism holds that the individual has no rights, that his life and work belong to the group … and that the group may sacrifice him…
Ayn Rand Civilized Society
THE PRECONDITION OF A CIVILIZED SOCIETY IS THE BARRING OF PHYSICAL FORCE FROM SOCIAL RELATIONSHIPS THAT IF MEN WISH TO DEAL WITH ONE ANOTHER, THEY…
Ayn Rand on Wealth redistribution
“WHOEVER CLAIMS THE RIGHT TO REDISTRIBUTE THE WEALTH PRODUCED BY OTHERS IS CLAIMING THE RIGHT TO TREAT HUMAN BEINGS AS CHATTEL.”– AYN RAND
Written in 1957 and truer than ever today.
“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…
Ayn Rand Moral Law
“Individual rights are the means of subordinating society to moral law.” — Ayn Rand
Ayn Rand Fascist Trend
“I have stated repeatedly that the trend in this country is toward a fascist system with communist slogans. Neither business nor labor nor anyone else,…
Ayn Rand on Pity
PITY FORTHE GUILTYIS TREASONTO THEINNOCENT AYN RAND
Ayn Rand Predicts Leftist NPC Heard
“It is the Communists’ intention to make people think that personal success is somehow achieved at the expense of others. It is the Communists’ aim…
Ayn Rand, Self Esteem, and Thinking
“Self-esteem is reliance on one’s power to think. It cannot be replaced by one’s power to deceive.”
Ayn Rand Devotion to Truth
“Devotion to the truth is the hallmark of morality; there is no greater, nobler, more heroic form of devotion than the act of a man…
Ayn Rand on Modified Capitalism
“In this country, few people care to advocate, to defend, or even to understand capitalism; yet fewer still wish to give up its advantages. So…
Ayn Rand The Individual vs The Collective
“The contest has another name: the individual against the collective. The ‘common good’ of a collective, a race, a class, a state, was the claim…
Ayn Rand on Second Handers
“We are taught to admire the second-hander who dispenses gifts he has not produced above the man who made the gifts possible. We praise an…
Ayn Rand on Wealth
“Wealth is the product of man’s capacity to think.”
Paradoxes built up about Capitalism
“Observe the paradoxes built up about capitalism. It has been called a system of selfishness (which, in my sense of the term, it is), yet…
Ayn Rand, Closest to Economic Freedom we got
“A full, perfect system of capitalism has never yet existed in history. Various degrees of government intervention and control remained in all the mixed, semi-free…
Ayn Rand Government must be Controlled
AYN RAND“If a society is to be free, its government must be controlled.”
Ayn Rand on Economic underprivileged
“The next time you hear about a crazed gang of juvenile delinquents, don’t look for such explanations as ‘slum childhood,’ ‘economic underprivilege,’ or ‘parental neglect.’…
Ayn Rand the Ultimate Inversion
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…
Ayn Rand, life, liberty, and pursuit of happines.
“The basic premise of the Founding Fathers was man’s right to his own life, to his own liberty, to the pursuit of his own happiness…
Ayn Rand Consent of the Governed
“The source of the government’s authority is ‘the consent of the governed.’ This means that the government is not the ruler, but the servant or…
Ayn Rand Creators Eliminating Desease
“The work of the CREATORS has eliminated one form of disease after another, in man’s body and spirit, and brought more relief from suffering than…
Ayn Rand on Spread of Evil
“The spread of evil is the symptom of a vacuum. Whenever evil wins, it is only by default: by the moral failure of those who…
Ayn Rand Political Freedom
“It took centuries of intellectual, philosophical development to achieve political freedom. It was a long struggle, stretching from Aristotle to John Locke to the Founding…
Ayn Rand US is Magnificent.
“The United States, history’s magnificent example of a country created by political theorists, has abandoned its own philosophy and is falling apart. As a nation,…
Ayn Rand Educational System
“It is the educational establishment that has created this national disaster. It is philosophy that has created the educational establishment. The anti-rational philosophic trend of…
Ayn Rand Fascism vs Communism
“For many decades, the leftists have been propagating the false dichotomy that the choice confronting the world is only: communism or fascism, a dictatorship of…
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 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.”
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…
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.
To oppose war oppose statism
“If men want to oppose war, it is statism that they must oppose.”
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,…
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.
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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, 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, 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…
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…
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 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…
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 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……
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 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 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 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…
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 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 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.”
