When I say “capitalism,” I mean a pure, uncontrolled, unregulated laissez-faire capitalism – with a separation of economics, in the same way and for the same reasons as a separation of state and church.
Ayn Rand Quotes
I will not attempt, in a brief lecture, to discuss the political theory of Objectivism. Those who are interested will find it presented in full detail in Atlas Shrugged. I will say only that every political system is based on and derived from a theory of ethics–and that the Objectivist ethics is the moral base […]
All the economic evils popularly ascribed to capitalism were caused, necessitated, and made possible not by private enterprise, not by free trade on a free market, but by government intervention into the economy, by government controls, favors, subsidies, franchises, and special privileges.
Observe the paradoxes built up about capitalism. It has been called a system of selfishness, yet is it the only system that drew men to unite on a large scale into great countries, and peacefully cooperate across national boundaries, while all the collectivist, internationalist, One-World systems are splitting the world into Balkanized tribes. Capitalism has […]
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 demand for dictatorial powers. In Soviet Russia, the scapegoat was the bourgeoisie; in Nazi Germany, it was the Jewish […]
We are all brothers under the skin – and I, for one, would be willing to skin humanity to prove it.
But what is freedom? Freedom from what? There is nothing to take man’s freedom away from him, save other men. To be free, a man must be free of his brothers.
That which you see is the first thing to disbelieve.
I am an intransigent atheist, but not a militant one. This means that I am an uncompromising advocate of reason and that I am fighting “for” reason, not “against” religion. I must also mention that I do respect religion in its philosophical aspects, in the sense that it represents an early form of philosophy.
I don’t build in order to have clients. I have clients in order to build.
