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Ayn Rand Quotes - Page 2

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The difference between [socialism and fascism] is superficial and purely formal, but it is significant psychologically: it brings the authoritarian nature of a planned economy crudely into the open. The main

The difference between [socialism and fascism] is superficial and purely formal, but it is significant psychologically: it brings the authoritarian nature of a planned economy crudely into the open. The main characteristic of socialism (and of communism) is public ownership of the means of production, and, therefore, the abolition of private property. The right to property is the right of use and disposal. Under fascism, men retain the semblance or pretense of private property, but the government holds total power over its use and disposal.

Mean, Power, Men

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 enough criminals, one makes them. One declares so many things to be a crime that it becomes impossible for me to live without breaking laws. Who wants a nation of law-abiding citizens? What’s there in that for anyone? But just pass the kind of laws that can neither be observed or enforced nor objectively interpreted - and you create a nation of law-breakers - and then you cash in on guilt.

Men, Innocent Man, Law

Ayn Rand (2016). “Atlas Shrugged”, p.334, Hamilton Books

We are born into this world unarmed - our mind is our only weapon.

Mind, World, Weapons

Do not help your jailers to pretend that their jail is your natural state of existence.

Jail, Helping, Natural

Ayn Rand (1963). “For the New Intellectual: The Philosophy of Ayn Rand (50th Anniversary Edition)”, p.154, Penguin

One loses everything when one loses one's sense of humor.

Sense Of Humor, Fountainhead, Fountain Head

Ayn Rand (2005). “The Fountainhead”, p.546, Penguin

If the truth shall kill them, let them die.

Death, Truth, Words Of Wisdom

"Judgment Day: My Years with Ayn Rand". Book by Nathaniel Brandon, 1989.

If, before undertaking some action, you must obtain the permission of society-you are not free, whether such permission is granted to you or not. Only a slave acts on permission. A permission is not a right.

Action, Slave, Granted

Ayn Rand (1988). “The Ayn Rand Lexicon: Objectivism from A to Z”, p.228, Penguin

Man needs knowledge in order to survive, and only reason can achieve it; men who reject the responsibility of thought and reason, can exist only as parasites on the thinking of others.

Responsibility, Men, Thinking

"The Virtue of Selfishness".

Great men can't be ruled.

Men, Great Men

Ayn Rand (2011). “Ayn Rand Novel Collection”, p.819, Penguin

An honest man is one who knows that he can't consume more than he has produced.

Honesty, Men, Novelists

Ayn Rand (2016). “Atlas Shrugged”, p.314, Hamilton Books

Every government interference in the economy consists of giving an unearned benefit, extorted by force, to some men at the expense of others.

Humor, Men, Giving

Ayn Rand (1988). “The Ayn Rand Lexicon: Objectivism from A to Z”, p.240, Penguin

Whoever claims the right to redistribute the wealth produced by others is claiming the right to treat human beings as chattel.

Money, Rights, Liberty

Ayn Rand (1988). “The Ayn Rand Lexicon: Objectivism from A to Z”, p.219, Penguin

The truth is not for all men, but only for those who seek it.

Inspirational, Wisdom, Truth

Potentially, a government is the most dangerous threat to man's rights: it holds a legal monopoly on the use of physical force against legally disarmed victims.

Men, Rights, Use

Ayn Rand (1964). “The Virtue of Selfishness”, p.94, Penguin

A creative man is motivated by the desire to achieve, not by the desire to beat others.

Motivational, Dance, Teamwork

Ayn Rand (1988). “The Ayn Rand Lexicon: Objectivism from A to Z”, p.99, Penguin

The freedom of speech of private individuals includes the right to not agree, not to listen, and not to finance one's own antagonists.

Freedom Of Speech, Finance, Individual

Ayn Rand, Nathaniel Branden, Alan Greenspan, Robert Hessen (1986). “Capitalism: The Unknown Ideal”, p.311, Penguin

If you don't know, the thing to do is not to get scared, but to learn.

Scared, Things To Do, Knows

Ayn Rand (2005). “Atlas Shrugged”, p.828, Penguin

Government 'help' to business is just as disastrous as government persecution... the only way a government can be of service to national prosperity is by keeping its hands off.

Witty, Business, Government

Ayn Rand, Nathaniel Branden, Alan Greenspan, Robert Hessen (1986). “Capitalism: The Unknown Ideal”, p.131, Penguin

I am not morally obligated to care more for a man than he cares for himself.

Men, Care

You can ignore reality, but you can't ignore the consequences of ignoring reality.

Reality, Consequence

If a society is to be free, its government has to be controlled.

Government, Controlled, Ifs

Ayn Rand, Nathaniel Branden, Alan Greenspan, Robert Hessen (1986). “Capitalism: The Unknown Ideal”, p.315, Penguin

Don't ever give up what you want in life. The struggle is worth it.

Giving Up, Struggle, Want

Ayn Rand (1990). “The Voice of Reason: Essays in Objectivist Thought”, p.321, Penguin

Do not let your fire go out ... Do not let the Hero in your soul perish ... Check your road and the nature of your battle. The world you desired can be won. It exists, it is real, it is possible, it is yours.

Real, Hero, Recovery

Ayn Rand (2011). “Ayn Rand Novel Collection”, p.2269, Penguin

Socialism is the doctrine that man has no right to exist for his own sake, that his life and his work do not belong to him, but belong to society, that the only justification of his existence is his service to society, and that society may dispose of him in any way it pleases for the sake of whatever it deems to be its own tribal, collective good.

Men, Liberty, Doctrine

Ayn Rand (1988). “The Ayn Rand Lexicon: Objectivism from A to Z”, p.465, Penguin

America's abundance was created not by public sacrifices to the common good, but by the productive genius of free men who pursued their own personal interests and the making of their own private fortunes. They did not starve the people to pay for America's industrialization. They gave the people better jobs, higher wages, and cheaper goods with every new machine they invented, with every scientific discovery or technological advance- and thus the whole country was moving forward and profiting, not suffering, every step of the way.

Country, Jobs, Moving

"Capitalism: The Unknown Ideal". Book by Ayn Rand and Nathaniel Branden, 1966.

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