Ayn Rand Quotes About Human Rights
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Do not make the mistake of the ignorant who think that an individualist is a man who says: “I’ll do as I please at everybody else’s expense.” An individualist is a man who recognizes the inalienable individual rights of man—his own and those of others.
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America's founding Ideal was the principle of individual rights. Nothing more - and nothing less.
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There is no such dichotomy as 'human rights' versus 'property rights.' No human rights can exist without property rights.
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The end does not justify the means. No one's rights can be secured by the violation of the rights of others.
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The right to life means that a man has the right to support his life by his own work (on any economic level, as high as his ability will carry him); it does not mean that others must provide him with the necessities of life.
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The doctrine that 'human rights' are superior to 'property rights' simply means that some human beings have the right to make property out of others.
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