Russian - Writer | February 2, 1905 - March 6, 1982
Individual rights are the means of subordinating society to moral law.
Ayn Rand
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Do not ever say that the desire to 'do good' by force is a good motive. Neither power-lust nor stupidity are good motives.
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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.
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Just as man can't exist without his body, so no rights can exist without the right to translate one's rights into reality, to think, to work and keep the results, which means: the right of property.
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A desire presupposes the possibility of action to achieve it; action presupposes a goal which is worth achieving.
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Only the man who does not need it, is fit to inherit wealth, the man who would make his fortune no matter where he started.
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God... a being whose only definition is that he is beyond man's power to conceive.
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Upper classes are a nation's past; the middle class is its future.
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