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Since there is no such entity as 'the public,' since the public is merely a number of individuals, the idea that 'the public interest' supersedes private interests and rights can have but one meaning: that the interests and rights of some individuals take precedence over the interests and rights of others.

Ayn Rand's Popular Quotes

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

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

- 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 …

- Ayn Rand

Within the extent of your knowledge, you are right.

- Ayn Rand

I don’t approve of religion.

- 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…

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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 …

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The smallest minority on earth is the individual. Those who deny individual rights cannot claim to be defenders of minorities.

- Ayn Rand