Meaningful Quotes

"It only stands to reason that where there is sacrifice, there is someone collecting the sacrificial offerings. Where there is service, there is someone being served. The man who speaks to you of sacrifice is speaking of slaves and masters, and intends to be the master." Ayn Rand

Watch money. Money is the barometer of a society's virtue. 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 who produce nothing — when you see that money is flowing to those who deal, not in goods, but in favors — when you see that men get richer by graft and by pull than by work, and your laws don't protect you against them, but protect them against you — when you see corruption being rewarded and honesty becoming a self-sacrifice — you may know that your society is doomed. Money is so noble a medium that is does not compete with guns and it does not make terms with brutality. It will not permit a country to survive as half-property, half-loot.
—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 act only by permission; which is the stage of the darkest periods of human history, the stage of rule by brute force.
—Ayn Rand

Dann757 wrote:Awesome Ayn Rand quotes Larry.

Even more awesome when one considers that they date back to the 1940's through the 1960's. She was a true visionary, through the power of logic and reason, and not through any mystical means.

coalkirk wrote:Socialism is the redistribution of poverty. Don't know who said it first but it rings true to me.

That reminds me of Margret Thatcher's saying that "The trouble with socialism is that sooner or later you run out of other peoples money."

Bush: “I've abandoned free market principles to save the free market system”