Objectivism is true philosophy; subjectivism is false philosophy.
Ayn Rand
"The difference between a totalitarian state and a welfare state is a matter of time."
"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."
"The hardest thing to explain is the glaringly evident which everybody had decided not to see."
"You can avoid reality, but you cannot avoid the consequences for avoiding realty".
"The question isn't who is going to let me; it's who is going to stop me".
"Freedom (n): To ask nothing. To expect nothing. To depend on nothing."
"An individualist is a man who says: 'I will not run anyone's life -- nor let anyone run mine. I will not rule nor be ruled. I will not be a master nor a slave. I will not sacrifice my life to anyone -- nor sacrifice anyone to myself."
"A business man can't force you to buy his products; if he makes a mistake he suffers the consequences; if he fails, he takes the loss. A bureaucrat forces you to obey his decisions, whether you agree with him or not... If he makes a mistake , you suffer the consequences; if fails he passes the loss on to you, in the form heavier taxes."
"The devotion to the truth is the highest hallmark of morality. There is no greater, nobler, more heroic form devotion than the man who assumes the responsibility of thinking".
"The uncontested absurdities of today are the accepted slogans of tomorrow."
"Statism needs war; a free country does not. Statism survives by looting, a free country survives by producing".
"We are fast approaching the stage of ultimate inversion: The stage where the government is free to do anything it pleases, while the citizens only act by permission".
Other People
Michael Ellner
“Just look at us. Everything is upside-down. Doctors destroy health, lawyers destroy justice, psychologists destroy minds, scientists destroy truth, major media destroys information, religions destroy spirituality, and governments destroy freedom.”
Dr. Robert Higgs
"The good cop, bad cop question can be disposed of decisively. We only need consider the following:
1. Every cop has agreed, as part of their job to enforce laws – all of them.
2. Many of the laws are manifestly unjust or even cruel and wicked.
3. Therefore every cop has agreed to act as an enforcer of laws that are manifestly unjust, or even cruel and wicked.
Conclusion: There are no good cops."
Mahatma Gandhi
“You assist an evil system most effectively by obeying it's orders and decrees. An evil system never deserves such allegiance. Allegiance to it means partaking in the evil. A good person will resist an evil system with his or her whole soul”.
John F. Kennedy
“Conformity is the jailer of freedom and the enemy of growth.”
Voltairine
"Anarchism, to me, means not only the denial of authority, not only a new economy, but a revision of the principles of morality. It means the development of the individual, as well as the assertion of the individual. It means self responsibility and not leader worship".
Voltairine
"I am told that this is farfetched Idealism, to paint this happy, povertyless, crimeless, diseaseless world. I am told that I 'ought to be behind bars' for it".
Abraham
Lincoln
"Those who deny freedom to others, deserve it not for themselves."
Buckminster Fuller
"The dark ages still reign over humanity, and depth and persistence of this domination are only now becoming clear. We're living in a dark age prison which has no steel bars, chains, or locks. Instead, it is locked by misinformation brought up in a plethora of conditioned reflexes and driven by the human ego, both Warden and prisoner attempt meagerly to compete with god. All are intractably skeptical of what they do not understand. We are powerfully imprisoned in these dark ages simply by the terms in which we have been conditioned to think".
Buckminster Fuller
“We should do away with the absolutely specious notion that everybody has to earn a living. It is a fact today that one in ten thousand of us can make a technological breakthrough capable of supporting all the rest. The youth of today are absolutely right in recognizing this nonsense of earning a living. We keep inventing jobs because of this false idea that everybody has to be employed at some kind of drudgery because, according to Malthusian Darwinian theory he must justify his right to exist. So we have inspectors of inspectors and people making instruments for inspectors to inspect inspectors. The true business of people should be to go back to school and think about whatever it was they were thinking about before somebody came along and told them they had to earn a living.”
Benjamin Franklin
"Any society that will give up little liberty to gain a little security, deserves neither and looses both."
Benjamin Franklin
"There never was a good war, nor a bad peace."
Thomas Jefferson
"No free man shall ever be debarred the use of arms. The strongest reason for the people to retain the right to keep and bear arms is, as a last resort, to protect themselves from tyranny in government."
Patrick Henry
"Show me that age and country where the rights and liberties of the people where placed on the sole chance of their rulers being good men, without a consequent loss of liberty?"
Patrick Henry
"Is life so dear, or peace so sweet, as to be purchased at the cost of chains and slavery? Forbid it, almighty God! I know not what course others may take, but as for me, GIVE ME LIBERTY, OR GIVE ME DEATH!"
George Washinton
A free people ought not only be armed and disciplined, but they should have sufficient arms and ammunition to maintain a status of independence from any who might attempt to abuse them, which would include their own government.
George Washinton
"If the freedom of speech is taken away, then dumb and silent, we may be led like sheep to the slaughter."