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,…
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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.”
