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Letter "A" » Ayn Rand Quotes
«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.»
Author: Ayn Rand
(Novelist, Writer)
| About:
Government,
Right
| Keywords:
disarmed, disarming, disarms, holds, legal, legally, legal right, monopolies, Monopoly, physical, physical force, rights, the threat of, threat, victims
«When man learns to understand and control his own behavior as well as he is learning to understand and control the behavior of crop plants and domestic animals, he may be justified in believing that he has become civilized.»
Author: Ayn Rand
(Novelist, Writer)
| About:
Behavior
| Keywords:
crop, domestic, domestics, domestic animal, domestic animals, justified, Learning to, plants
«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.»
Author: Ayn Rand
(Novelist, Writer)
| About:
Government,
Law and lawyers,
Power
| Keywords:
breaking, crack, crack down, criminals, criminal law, declares
«That which you see is the first thing to disbelieve»
«Unjust laws have to be fought ideologically; they cannot be fought or corrected by means of mere disobedience and futile martyrdom»
Author: Ayn Rand
(Novelist, Writer)
| Keywords:
corrected, disobedience, fought, futile, ideologically, martyrdom, unjust
«I need no warrant for being, and no word of sanction upon my being. I am the warrant and the sanction. - Anthem»
«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.»
Author: Ayn Rand
(Novelist, Writer)
| Keywords:
approaching, brute, brute force, citizens, darkest, Human history, inversion, periods, permission, pleases, rule by, stage, the government, The Stage, The Ultimate, ultimate
«It only stands to reason that where there's sacrifice, there's someone collecting the sacrificial offerings. Where there's service, there is someone being served. The man who speaks to you of sacrifice is speaking of slaves and masters, and intends to be the master.»
«Money is the barometer of a society's virtue.»
«Force and mind are opposites; morality ends where a gun begins.»
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