Ayn Rand

"We can evade reality, but we cannot evade the consequences of evading reality" Ayn Rand

"The source of the government's authority is “the consent of the governed.” This means that the government is not the ruler, but the servant or agent of the citizens; it means that the government as such has no rights except the rights delegated to it by the citizens for a specific purpose." Ayn Rand

"A businessman cannot force you to buy his product; if he makes a mistake, he suffers the consequences; if he fails, he takes the loss. If bureaucrat makes a mistake, you suffer the consequences; if he fails, he passes the loss on to you." Ayn Rand

"All depressions are caused by government interference and the cure is always offered to take more of the poison that caused the disaster. Depressions are not the result of a free economy." Ayn Rand

"The uncontested absurdities of today are the accepted slogans of tomorrow." Ayn Rand

"When you see corruption being rewarded and honesty becoming a self-sacrifice, you may know that your society is doomed" Ayn Rand

"A society that robs an individual of the product of his effort ... is not strictly speaking a society, but a mob held together by institutionalized gang violence." Ayn Rand

"The majority of those who are loosely identified by the term 'liberals' are afraid to let themselves discover that what they advocate is statism. They want to keep all the advantages and effects of capitalism, while destroying the cause, and they want to establish statism without its necessary effects. They do not want to know or to admit that they are the champions of dictatorship and slavery." Ayn Rand

"So you think that money is the root of all evil. Have you ever asked what is the root of all money?" Ayn Rand

"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

"Fascism, Nazism, Communism and Socialism are only superficial variations of the same monstrous theme—collectivism." Ayn Rand

"This is the psychology of people who, when a country has become a dictatorship, cry out, ‘I'm not to blame! I only wanted the government to control prices, wages, profits, industry, science, health care, the arts, education, television, and the press! I was never in favor of a dictatorship!’" Ayn Rand

"Everyone has the right to make his own decisions, but none has the right to force his decision on others." Ayn Rand

"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." Ayn Rand