There is no difference between communism and socialism, except in the means of achieving the same ultimate end: communism proposes to enslave men by force, socialism - by vote. It is merely the difference between murder and suicide. Ayn Rand More Quotes by Ayn Rand More Quotes From Ayn Rand America's abundance was not created 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. Ayn Rand sacrifice men america To fear to face an issue is to believe that the worst is true. Ayn Rand issues fear believe Without property rights, no other rights are possible. Ayn Rand property-rights property rights Under the antitrust laws, a man becomes a criminal from the moment he goes into business, no matter what he does. If he complies with one of these laws, he faces criminal prosecution under several others. For instance, if he charges prices which some bureaucrats judge as too high, he can be prosecuted for monopoly or for a successful 'intent to monopolize'; if he charges prices lower than those of his competitors, he can be prosecuted for 'unfair competition' or 'restraint of trade'; and if he charges the same prices as his competitors, he can be prosecuted for 'collusion' or 'conspiracy.' Ayn Rand successful law men Her face lay still on the air under his face. Ayn Rand stills air faces When you force a man to act against his own choice and judgment, it's his thinking that you want him to suspend. Ayn Rand men people thinking There can be no justification for choosing any part of that which one knows to be evil. Ayn Rand justification evil knows It's strange. There's your life. You begin it, feeling that it's something so precious and rare, so beautiful that it's like a sacred treasure. Now it's over, and it doesn't make any difference to anyone, and it isn't that they are indifferent, it's just that they don't know, they don't know what it means, that treasure of mine, and there's something about it that they should understand. I don't understand it myself, but there's something that should be understood by all of us. Only what is it? What? Ayn Rand differences beautiful mean You love your work. God help you, you love it! And thats the curse. That's the brand on your forehead for all of them to see. You love it and they know it, and they know they have you. Do you ever look at the people in the street? Aren't you afraid of them? I am. They move past you and they wear hats and they carry bundles. But that's not the substance of them. The substance of them is hatred for any man who loves his work. That's the only kind they fear. I don't know why Ayn Rand men past moving A good quotation must be a complete entity. It must be like a headline - sharp, clear, whole. Ayn Rand headlines entity clear To preserve one's mind intact through a modern college education is a test of courage and endurance, but the battle is worth it and the stakes are the highest possible to man: the survival of reason. Ayn Rand college teaching men There are four characteristics which brand a country unmistakably as a dictatorship: one-party rule, executions without trial or with a mock trial for political offenses, the nationalization or expropriation of private property, and censorship. A country guilty of these outrages forfeits any moral prerogatives, any claim to national rights or sovereignty, and becomes an outlaw. Ayn Rand party rights country You must be the kind of man who can get things done. But to get things done, you must love the doing, not the secondary consequences. Ayn Rand attitude love men Collectivism holds that the individual has no rights, that his life and work belong to the group (to "society," to the tribe, the state, the nation) and that the group may sacrifice him at its own whim to its own interests. The only way to implement a doctrine of that kind is by means of brute force - and statism has always been the poltical corollary of collectivism. Ayn Rand sacrifice rights mean Show me your achievement, and the knowledge will give me courage for mine. Ayn Rand fountainhead achievement giving I am a man who does not exist for others. Ayn Rand fountainhead doe men Why do they always teach us that it's easy and evil to do what we want and that we need discipline to restrain ourselves? It's the hardest thing in the world--to do what we want. And it takes the greatest kind of courage. I mean, what we really want. Ayn Rand life-changing passion mean When a man declares: "There are no blacks and whites [in morality]" he is making a psychological confession, and what he means is: "I am unwilling to be wholly good - and please don't regard me as wholly evil!" Ayn Rand evil men mean It is morally obscene to regard wealth as an anonymous, tribal product and to talk about 'redistributing' it. Ayn Rand famous-women novelists money To love is to value. Only a rationally selfish man, a man of self esteem, is capable of love - because he is the only man capable of holding firm, consistent, uncompromising, unbetrayed value. The man who does not value himself, cannot value anything or anyone Ayn Rand selfish self-esteem love-is
