Ayn Rand Quotes About Freedom
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It is futile to fight against, if one does not know what one is fighting for.
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Individual rights are not subject to a public vote; a majority has no right to vote away the rights of a minority; the political function of rights is precisely to protect minorities from oppression by majorities (and the smallest minority on earth is the individual).
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The man who produces while others dispose of his product is a slave.
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Volumes can be and have been written about the issue of freedom versus dictatorship, but, in essence, it comes down to a single question: do you consider it moral to treat men as sacrificial animals and to rule them by physical force?
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These are the things before me. And as I stand here at the door of glory, I look behind me for the last time. I look upon the history of men, which I have learned from the books, and I wonder. It was a long story, and the spirit which moved it was the spirit of man’s freedom. But what is freedom? Freedom from what? There is nothing to take a man’s freedom away from him, save other men. To be free, a man must be free of his brothers. That is freedom. This and nothing else.
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Do not keep silent when your own ideas and values are being attacked. If a dictatorship ever comes to this country, it will be by the fault of those who keep silent. We are still free enough to speak. Do we have time? No one can tell.
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Do not lose your knowledge that man's proper estate is an upright posture, an intransigent mind, and a step that travels unlimited roads.
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Freedom (n.): To ask nothing. To expect nothing. To depend on nothing.
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It stands to reason that if sacrifices are being given, somebody is collecting sacrifices.
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In a free society, one does not have to deal with those who are irrational. One is free to avoid them.
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Political freedom cannot exist without economic freedom; a free mind and a free market are corollaries.
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