“Do not make the mistake of the ignorant who think that an individualist is a man who says: I’ll do as I please at everybody else’s expense. An individualist is a man who recognizes the inalienable individual rights of man—his own and those of others.
Ayn Rand (verified)
“A creative man is motivated by the desire to achieve, not by the desire to beat others.”
— Ayn Rand (verified)“The end does not justify the means. No one’s rights can be secured by the violation of the rights of others.”
— Ayn Rand (verified)“Racism is the lowest, most crudely primitive form of collectivism. It is the notion of ascribing moral, social or political significance to a man’s genetic lineage—the notion that a man’s intellectual and characterological traits are produced and transmitted by his internal body chemistry. Which means, in practice, that a man is to be judged, not by his own character and actions, but by the characters and actions of a collective of ancestors.”
— Ayn Rand (verified)“Inflation is not caused by the actions of private citizens, but by the government: by an artificial expansion of the money supply required to support deficit spending. No private embezzlers or bank robbers in history have ever plundered people’s savings on a scale comparable to the plunder perpetrated by the fiscal policies of statist governments.”
— Ayn Rand (verified)• Title: The Ayn Rand Lexicon: Objectivism from A to Z
• Author: Ayn Rand (Author), Harry Binswanger (Editor)
• Type: Book
• Publisher: New American Library
• Publication time: 1986
• Publication place: New York, United States
• Link: https://aynrandlexicon.com/