Ayn Rand on Justice
Browse 10 quotations attributed to Ayn Rand, catalogued under justice, with dates where available.
This page displays 10 quotations attributed to Ayn Rand and filed under "justice" in QuoteLineage. The selection is ordered by stored importance and quality scores, not citation counts. A topic label describes how an entry is catalogued; it does not establish the theme's importance in the author's work.
Attributed to Ayn Rand, entry #15784: "Since only an individual man can possess rights, the expression “individual rights” is a redundancy . But the expression “collective rights” is a contradiction in terms."
Attributed to Ayn Rand, entry #73035: "Remember also that the smallest minority on earth is the individual. Those who deny individual rights, cannot claim to be defenders of minorities."
10 Quotes by Ayn Rand on Justice
"Since only an individual man can possess rights, the expression “individual rights” is a redundancy . But the expression “collective rights” is a contradiction in terms."
"Remember also that the smallest minority on earth is the individual. Those who deny individual rights, cannot claim to be defenders of minorities."
"Any group or “collective,” large or small, is only a number of individuals. A group can have no rights other than the rights of its individual members."
"“Free competition enforced by law” is a grotesque contradiction in terms."
"Individual rights are the means of subordinating society to moral law."
"When you consider socialism, do not fool yourself about its nature. Remember that there is no such dichotomy as “human rights” versus “property rights.” No human rights can exist without property rights."
"Art is man’s metaphysical mirror; what a rational man seeks to see in that mirror is a salute; what an irrational man seeks to see is a justification – even if only a justification of his depravity, as a last convulsion of his betrayed self-esteem."
"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 demands for dictatorial powers. In Soviet Russia, the scapegoat was the bourgeoisie; in Nazi Germany, it was the Jewish people; in America, it is the businessmen."
"So long as hold the tribal notion that the individual is sacrificial fodder for the collective, that some men have the right to rule others by force, and that some alleged 'good' can justify It — there can be no peace ‘within’ a nation and no peace among nations."
"A crime is the violation of the right of other men by force . It is only the initiation of physical force against others- i.e., the recourse to violence- that can be classified as a crime in a free society . Ideas, in a free society, are not a crime- and neither can they serve as the justification of a crime."