Capitalism is our only moral system. All other systems take advantage of man's rights and liberties.
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RAND PAUL I think I view the system the same way that Ayn Rand views the system - that it really oppresses tho...
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AYN RAND Ayn Rand is a rhetorician who writes novels I have never been able to read.
GORE VIDAL “Anyone who fights for the future, lives in it today.” - Ayn Rand
AYN RAND Of all Americans who have appeared on the nation's postage stamps, Ayn Rand is probably the only...
THOMAS MALLON I tend to really be partial to Ayn Rand, and to The Fountainhead and Atlas Shrugged.
CLARENCE THOMAS Our country is the world, our countrymen all mankind. We love the land of our nativity, only as we l...
WILLIAM LLOYD GARRISON If everybody spent enough time worrying about their own goddamn selves, no one would have to worry a...
DON DE GRAZIA Ayn Rand's 'philosophy' is nearly perfect in its immorality, which makes the size of her audience al...
GORE VIDAL But I still wonder how it was possible, in those graceless years of transition, long ago, that men d...
AYN RAND Every stylish man should have a copy of 'The Fountainhead' by Ayn Rand on his bookshelf.
ORLANDO BLOOM Before I met Ayn Rand, I was a logical positivist, and accordingly, I didn't believe in absolute...
ALAN GREENSPAN I have always found it quaint and rather touching that there is a movement [Libertarians] in the US ...
CHRISTOPHER HITCHENS Why have you been staring at me ever since we met? Because I’m not the Gail Wynand you’d heard a...
AYN RAND The thing for me about Ayn Rand is that her philosophy is the only one applicable to the world today...
NEIL PEART Web GIS allows us to take our systems of record - our traditional server and desktop technologies - ...
JACK DANGERMOND Self-help is not solely the best help, but the only reliable form of help because all other kinds of...
ANUJ SOMANY Don't try to talk anyone out of concentrating his hatred on Ayn Rand or any other dead person. It ca...
JOHN MCCARTHY I took inspiration from 'Fountainhead,' the way in which Ayn Rand conveyed her political phi...
ELIYAHU GOLDRATT No man has a right in America to treat any other man "tolerantly" for tolerance is the assumption of...
WENDELL L. WILLKIE When the public's right to know is threatened, and when the rights of free speech and free press are...
CHRISTOPHER DODD Don't try to talk anyone out of concentrating his hatred on Ayn Rand or any other dead person. I...
JOHN MCCARTHY The Union next to our liberties the most dear. May we all remember that it can only be preserved by ...
JOHN C. CALHOUN The political parties are there to distract us from our systems of government; instead of focusing o...
HAROUTIOUN BOCHNAKIAN When the public's right to know is threatened, and when the rights of free speech and free press...
CHRISTOPHER DODD serve as the steward of the rights, liberties and freedoms of all Americans for generations to come.
WADE HENDERSON The Framers of the Bill of Rights did not purport to create rights. Rather, they designed the Bill o...
JUSTICE WILLIAM J. BRENNAN, JR. The Framers of the Bill of Rights did not purport to "create" rights. Rather, they designed the Bill...
WILLIAM J. BRENNAN, JR. The Framers of the Bill of Rights did not purport to "create" rights. Rather, they designed the Bill...
WILLIAM J. BRENNAN JR. If somebody is going to try to paste a person's view on epistemology to me, then give me Thomas ...
PAUL RYAN Deleuze and Guattari describe capitalism as a kind of dark potentiality which haunted all previous s...
MARK FISHER The Framers of the Bill of Rights did not purport to 'create' rights. Rather, they designed ...
WILLIAM J. BRENNAN, JR. Capitalism is a stupid system, a backward system.
STOKELY CARMICHAEL The dichotomy between personal liberties and property rights is a false one. Property does not have ...
POTTER STEWART Content owners may not take advantage of what Microsoft is doing? They could bypass the PC altogethe...
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PAUL NOLTE Communism is not the opposite of democracy. Communism and capitalism are economic systems. Democracy...
DAVID SPITZ Well, honey, it’s capitalism that brings out the meanness and greed,” says I. “Our founding fa...
JERRY ASH The founders established a government of checks and balances so nobody could take advantage. As for ...
ALEXANDER HAMILTON But the greatest menace to our civilization today is the conflict between giant organized systems of...
HERBERT BUTTERFIELD But the greatest menace to our civilization today is the conflict between giant organized systems of...
HERBERT BUTTERFIELD When the shallow critics denounce the profit motive inherent in our system of private enterprise, th...
DWIGHT DAVID EISENHOWER The free press is the mother of all our liberties and of our progress under liberty.
ADLAI E. STEVENSON In this case, it was much colder than forecast, not only for our systems, but other systems in the a...
TOM HENLEY This legislation would be extraordinarily helpful in maintaining our system and would be helpful for...
JAMES HARTMAN Our political system continues to produce human rights disasters and social crises, thereby not only...
LIU XIAOBO Only communist China could take away civil liberties and get away with it.
LAURIE GARRETT A moral system valid for all is basically immoral.
FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE Our Constitution was made only for a moral and religious people. It is wholly inadequate to the gove...
JOHN ADAMS Moral rights form the essence of copyright law. When they conflict with economic rights, moral right...
KALYAN C. KANKANALA The anti-individualist enemies that Ayn Rand battled are still the enemy, but they've shifted th...
P. J. O'ROURKE For something to collapse, not all systems have to shut down. In most cases, just one system is enou...
ROBERT KIYOSAKI In order to advance, we have to take advantage not only of our success, but also of our failure.
GHASSAN SHAHROUR MD The crowning feature of the federal system is the supremacy of the judiciary over all other branches...
CHARLES A. BEARD The only sound approach to collective bargaining is to work out an agreement that clarifies the righ...
CHARLES E. WILSON Our team is a family and this team only has one year together. We have to take advantage of everythi...
DEKE THOMPSON The reason I got involved in public service, by and large, if I had to credit one thinker, one perso...
PAUL RYAN Now you know my credo: Free-market capitalism is the best path to prosperity. And let me add to that...
LAWRENCE KUDLOW I've built a name, a brand that many other people take advantage of - why not take advantage of myse...
EVA HERZIGOVA Nick chided a censor, who wished some books gone, and suggested she scan Fahrenheit 451. For the boo...
DAVID DAVIS I think we need to start thinking about grounding our moral systems in our biology.
FRANS DE WAAL Well, take the evolution of the Electronic Frontier Foundation. It began as hackers' rights. The...
ESTHER DYSON There is no moral phenomena at all, only moral interpretation of phenomena
FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE There are only two things we should fight for. One is the defense of our homes and the other is the ...
SMEDLEY BUTLER It is unfortunate that there are people who say that capitalism is inherently immoral. I do not view...
LEE R. RAYMOND All Socialism is Democratic Socialism. Socialist nations take away civil liberties by referendum.
A.E. SAMAAN We're about to shoot an episode on Air Force One, for instance, and we're going to take libe...
AARON SORKIN The assumption that animals are without rights and the illusion that our treatment of them has no mo...
ARTHUR SCHOPENHAUER Opening stores is something we do very well and we are continuing to work with local organizations t...
JOSEPH ROTH Capitalism is, fundamentally, an economic system that promotes inequality.
ANNALEE NEWITZ There are a lot of measures they can implement whether it is insulation, new windows, heating and co...
COLLEEN RYAN I believed - and believe - that capitalism works best for a freedom-loving society, that it brings m...
KATHARINE GRAHAM Politicon should be applauded for recognizing the increasing impact of technology, not only on Ameri...
JOHN MCAFEE We must defend our rights and preserve our constitution, ... For the federal courts to adopt the age...
ROY MOORE We're not talking about amnesty or allowing foreigners to take advantage of our welfare system. We'r...
CRAIG REGELBRUGGE What are we having this liberty for? We are having this liberty in order to reform our social system...
B. R. AMBEDKAR We cannot ignore the growing misuse of campus LAN systems or the toll this means of theft is taking ...
CARY SHERMAN Americans oppose Obamacare because they understand that it is inconsistent with our liberties and ou...
DAVID LIMBAUGH If allowed to run free of the social system, capitalism will attempt to corrupt and undermine democr...
JOHN RALSTON SAUL The assumption that animals are without rights and the illusion that our treatment of them has no mo...
ARTHUR SCHOPENHAUER Men make the moral code and they expect women to accept it. They have decided that it is entirely ri...
EMMELINE PANKHURST There's only one life. There's no repeats. You only get one life, and you gotta take advanta...
VICTOR CRUZ The health system is usually weak ... We should really strengthen our health systems and surveillanc...
HONORE MEDA 1963, because of the sense of moral authority that the civil rights movement had, we were able to ge...
JOHN LEWIS We believe that government in Britain is there to protect people from terrorism and from the worst c...
CHARLES KENNEDY I'm so proud of my Chinese ancestry, but I was born and raised in America, and I really believe ...
GARY LOCKE You've got to take advantage of the other team's weaknesses.
JEFF FINCH The whole idea of "leaners" and "lifters" is the central teaching of the right wing ideologue, Ayn R...
ANNE MANNE Before I went to college I read two books. I read a book “Moral Mazes” by Robert Jackall which i...
AARON SWARTZ The purpose is to get the other side of the story. The ONDCP is trying to push for student drug-test...
CHRISTINA KIMBALL The beauty of our country is that when it was founded that they took some time to lay out civil libe...
AARON RODGERS We didn't take advantage of our opportunities.
TRACY ARCHULETA The liberties of our country, the freedom of our civil constitution, are worth defending against all...
SAMUEL ADAMS If you don't believe this election is important, if you think you can sit it out, take a moment ...
BERNIE SANDERS ...capitalism satisfied the Christian demand for an institution that channels selfish human desire t...
DINESH D'SOUZA It comes back to that basic problem of people who are lost to our normal systems of care and communi...
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AYN RAND He liked to observe emotions; they were like red lanterns strung along the dark unknown of another's...
AYN RAND The man who produces while others dispose of his product is a slave.
AYN RAND The purpose of the law is not to prevent a future offense, but to punish the one actually committed
AYN RAND Just as man can't exist without his body, so no rights can exist without the right to translate one'...
AYN RAND The uncontested absurdities of today are the accepted slogans of tomorrow. They come to be accepted ...
AYN RAND The evil of the world is made possible by nothing but the sanction you give it. - Atlas Shrugged
AYN RAND God... a being whose only definition is that he is beyond man's power to conceive.
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