Ayn Rand on Politics
Browse 6 quotations attributed to Ayn Rand, catalogued under Politics, with dates where available.
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Attributed to Ayn Rand, entry #155501: "Every government interference in the economy consists of giving an unearned benefit, extorted by force, to some men at the expense of others."
Attributed to Ayn Rand, entry #85711: "Observe, in politics, that the term extremism has become a synonym of "evil," regardless of the content of the issue ."
6 Quotes by Ayn Rand on Politics
"Every government interference in the economy consists of giving an unearned benefit, extorted by force, to some men at the expense of others."
"Observe, in politics, that the term extremism has become a synonym of "evil," regardless of the content of the issue ."
"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 ."
"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."
"Economic power is exercised by means of a positive, by offering men a reward, an incentive, a payment, a value; political power is exercised by means of a negative, by the threat of punishment, injury, imprisonment, destruction. The businessman's tool is values; the bureaucrat's tool is fear."
"The people of Algiers marched through the streets of the city, in desperate protest against the new threat of civil war, shouting: 'We want peace! We want a government!' How are they to go about getting it? Through the years of civil war, they had been united, not by any political philosophy, but only by a racial issue. They were fighting, not for any program, but only against French rule. When they won their independence, they fell apart - into rival tribes and armed 'willayas' fighting one another"