Individual rights are the means of subordinating society to… - Ayn Rand

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Individual rights are the means of subordinating society to moral law.

Ayn Rand

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Ayn Rand (2 February 1905 – 6 March 1982) was a Russian-born American novelist, philosopher, playwright, and screenwriter. She is known for her bestselling novels, The Fountainhead and Atlas Shrugged, and for developing a philosophical system called Objectivism.

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Birth Name: Alisa Zinovyevna Rosenbaum

Alternative Names: Alisa Zinov'yevna Rosenbaum • Alice O'Connor

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Do you know that my personal crusade in life (in the philosophical sense) is not merely to fight collectivism, nor to fight altruism? These are only consequences, effects, not causes. I am out after the real cause, the real root of evil on earth — the irrational.

It is futile to fight against, if one does not know what one is fighting for.

Every coercive monopoly was created by government intervention into the economy: by special privileges, such as franchises or subsidies, which closed the entry of competitors into a given field, by legislative action.

Individual rights are the means of subordinating society to moral law. - Ayn Rand

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