Quotes About Freedom

La più piccola minoranza al mondo è l'individuo. Chiunque neghi i diritti dell'individuo non può sostenere di essere un difensore delle minoranze.

There is nothing to take a man's freedom away from him, save other men. To be free, a man must be free of his brothers. That is freedom. That and nothing else.

Sin derechos de propiedad ningún otro derecho es posible.

Congress shall make no law abridging the freedom of production and trade

If it is now the belief of my fellow men, who call themselves the public, that their good requires victims, then I say: 'The public good be damned, I will have no part of it!

La libertad que buscas es libertad del hecho de que si tu riqueza la hiciste robando, eres un ladrón, no importa cuánto dones a la caridad o cuántas plegarias recites;

Every man builds his world in his own image. He has the power to choose, but no power to escape the necessity of choice. If he abdicates his power, he abdicates the status of man, and the grinding of the irrational is what he achieves as his sphere of existence - by his own choice.

Now project what would happen if the technique of the Berkeley rebellion were repeated on a national scale.

Every man is free to rise as far as he is able or willing, but it's only the degree to which he thinks that determines the degree to which he'll rise.

Pero cuando el pueblo son seis mil voces berreantes tratando de decidir sin rasero ni medida, cuando no hay reglas del juego y cada uno puede exigir lo que se le ocurra pero no tiene derecho a nada, cuando todo el mundo tiene poder sobre la vida de todo el mundo excepto sobre la suya propia...

Quienes poseen la facultad del pensamiento, no trabajarán por obligación, y si lo hacen no producirán mucho más que el precio del látigo necesario para mantenerles en la esclavitud.

Quien le miente al mundo es esclavo del mundo a partir de ese momento.

Dotados de juicio para actuar, no se nos admitirá un acto de propia elección. Trabajaremos bajo disposiciones y controles promulgados por quienes son incapaces de producir nada.

Si existen grados de maldad, resulta difícil definir cuál es el más despreciable: si el bruto que asume el derecho a forzar la mente de otros, o el degenerado moral que ofrece a otros el derecho a forzar su mente.

he knew that the words they were eager to absorb and believe were the chains slipping in to hold them

Estamos en huelga contra el martirio y contra el código moral que lo exige, contra quienes creen que uno debe existir sólo para beneficiar a otros y contra esa moral de caníbales, tanto si se practica de un modo material como espiritual.

Into what bottomless, future-less sewer of the unpaid-for? Here, we trade achievements, not failures - values, not needs. We're free of one another, yet we all grow together. Wealth, Dagny? What greater wreath is there than to own your life and to spend it on growing? Everyone living thing must grow. It can't stand still. It must grow or perish.

Can you rule a thinking man? We don't want any thinking men.

I diritti individuali non possono essere sottoposti al voto perché la maggioranza non ha il diritto di votare contro i diritti di una minoranza. La funzione politica dei diritti, in una visione liberale, è precisamente quella di proteggere le minoranze dall'oppressione della maggioranza.

Usted no quiere que piense. Cuando fuerza a un hombre a actuar contra su placer y a su juicio, es su pensamiento el que desea suprimir. Anhela convertirlo en un robot. Pues bien, obraré de acuerdo con esto.

Every man worth calling a man lives for himself. The one who doesn't—doesn't live at all.

Es malo tener éxito, ya que el éxito se consigue por los fuertes a expensas de los débiles? Hemos dejado de agobiar a los débiles con nuestra ambición y quedan en libertad de prosperar sin nosotros.

Did it ever occur to you that I have a life to live - in my spare time? The Soviet State recognizes no life but that of a social class.

There is no such thing as 'the public interest' except as the sum of the interests of individual men. And the basic, common interest of all men—all rational men—is freedom. Freedom is the first requirement of 'the public interest'—not what men do when they are free, but that they are free. All their achievements rest on that foundation—and cannot exist without it.