Gold was an objective value, an equivalent of wealth produced. Paper is a mortgage on wealth that does not exist, backed by a gun aimed at those who are expected to produce it.
We didn't really have to take everything so seriously, did we? - Ayn Rand
We didn't really have to take everything so seriously, did we?
- Ayn Rand
Do not keep silent when your own ideas and values are being attacked. If a dictatorship ever comes to this country, it will be by the fault of those … - Ayn Rand
Do not keep silent when your own ideas and values are being attacked. If a dictatorship ever comes to this country, it will be by the fault of those …
We can evade reality, but we cannot evade the consequences of evading reality - Ayn Rand
We can evade reality, but we cannot evade the consequences of evading reality
I don’t approve of religion. - Ayn Rand
I don’t approve of religion.
Within the extent of your knowledge, you are right. - Ayn Rand
Within the extent of your knowledge, you are right.
There is no difference between communism and socialism, except in the means of achieving the same ultimate end: communism proposes to enslave men by … - 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 …
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… - 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…
When you see that trading is done, not by consent, but by compulsion - when you see that in order to produce, you need to obtain permission from men … - Ayn Rand
When you see that trading is done, not by consent, but by compulsion - when you see that in order to produce, you need to obtain permission from men …
The smallest minority on earth is the individual. Those who deny individual rights cannot claim to be defenders of minorities. - Ayn Rand
The smallest minority on earth is the individual. Those who deny individual rights cannot claim to be defenders of minorities.
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