Ayn Rand - Force Quotes

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Faith and force... are corollaries: every period of history dominated by mysticism, was a period of statism, of dictatorship, of tyranny.

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There is no difference between communism and socialism, except in the means of achieving the same ultimate end: communism proposes to enslave men by force, socialism - by vote. It is merely the difference between murder and suicide.

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Every government interference in the economy consists of giving an unearned benefit, extorted by force, to some men at the expense of others.

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So long as men desire to live together, no man may initiate the use of physical force against others.... When a man attempts to deal with me by force, I answer him by force. It is only as retaliation that force may be used and only against the man who starts its use. No, I do not share his evil or sink to his concept of morality: I merely grant him his choice, destruction, the only destruction he had the right to choose: his own.

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An attempt to achieve the good by force is like an attempt to provide a man with a picture gallery at the price of cutting out his eyes.

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When you force a man to act against his own choice and judgment, it's his thinking that you want him to suspend.

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Never initiate the use of force against another man. Never let his use of force against you remain unanswered by force.

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Capitalism was the only system in history where wealth was not acquired by looting, but by production, not by force, but by trade, the only system that stood for man's right to his own mind, to his work, to his life, to his happiness, to himself.

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To deal with men by force is as impractical as to deal with nature by persuasion.

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