Individual rights are the means of subordinating society to moral law.
Quote by Ayn Rand
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Individual rights are the means of subordinating society to moral law.
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Ayn Rand Quotes
- 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 process of setting man free from men.
- To achieve, you need thought. You have to know what you are doing and that's real power.
- I swear, by my life and my love of it, that I will never live for the sake of another man, nor ask another man to live for mine.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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 men to live without breaking laws.
- Love is the expression of one's values, the greatest reward you can earn for the moral qualities you have achieved in your character and person, the emotional price paid by one man for the joy he receives from the virtues of another.
- 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 men to live without breaking laws.
Best Quotes
- Steven Spielberg is unique. I feel that the kinds of movies he loves are the same kinds of movies that the big mass audience loves. He's very fortunate because he can do the things he naturally likes the best, and he's been very successful.
- To live happily is an inward power of the soul.
- I am not an accident neither will I cause an accident in your life. I was created to be a blessing and a joy to you.
- The message of Passover remains as powerful as ever. Freedom is won not on the battlefield but in the classroom and the home. Teach your children the history of freedom if you want them never to lose it.
- Capitalism has destroyed our belief in any effective power but that of self interest backed by force.
- When my mother got home from work, she would take me to the movies. It was her way of getting out, and she would take me with her. I'd go home and act all the parts. It had a tremendous influence on my becoming an actor.
- It isn't necessary to be rich and famous to be happy. It's only necessary to be rich.
- When the best leader's work is done the people say, 'We did it ourselves.'
- Great is the difference betwixt a man's being frightened at, and humbled for his sins.
- Where there's marriage without love, there will be love without marriage.