Observe the paradoxes built up about capitalism. It has been called a system of selfishness, yet is it the only system that drew men to unite on a large scale into great countries, and peacefully cooperate across national boundaries, while all the collectivist, internationalist, One-World systems are splitting the world into Balkanized tribes. Capitalism has […]
Ayn Rand Quotes
Laissez-faire capitalism is the only social system based on the recognition of individual rights and, therefore, the only system that bans force from social relationships. By the nature of its basic principles and interests, it is the only system fundamentally opposed to war.
No politico-economic system in history has ever proved its value so eloquently or has benefited mankind so greatly as capitalism – and none has ever been attacked so savagely, viciously, and blindly.
If one wishes to advocate a free society – that is, capitalism – one must realize that its indispensable foundation is the principle of individual rights. If one wishes to uphold individual rights, one must realize that capitalism is the only system that can uphold and protect them. And if one wishes to gauge the […]
Every movement that seeks to enslave a country, every dictatorship or potential dictatorship, needs some minority group as a scapegoat which it can blame for the nation’s troubles and use as a justification of its own demand for dictatorial powers. In Soviet Russia, the scapegoat was the bourgeoisie; in Nazi Germany, it was the Jewish […]
We are all brothers under the skin – and I, for one, would be willing to skin humanity to prove it.
But what is freedom? Freedom from what? There is nothing to take man’s freedom away from him, save other men. To be free, a man must be free of his brothers.
That which you see is the first thing to disbelieve.
I am an intransigent atheist, but not a militant one. This means that I am an uncompromising advocate of reason and that I am fighting “for” reason, not “against” religion. I must also mention that I do respect religion in its philosophical aspects, in the sense that it represents an early form of philosophy.
I don’t build in order to have clients. I have clients in order to build.
