Ayn Rand Quotes About Property Rights
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Without property rights, no other rights are possible.
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The only proper, moral purpose of a government is to protect man's rights, which means: to protect him from physical violence - to protect his right to his own life, to his own liberty, to his own property and to the pursuit of his own happiness. Without property rights, no other rights are possible.
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The right to life is the source of all rights -- and the right to property is their only implementation. Without property rights, no other rights are possible. Since man has to sustain his life by his own effort, the man who has no right to the product of his effort has no means to sustain his life. The man who produces while others dispose of his product, is a slave.
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Just as man can't exist without his body, so no rights can exist without the right to translate one's rights into reality, to think, to work and keep the results, which means: the right of property.
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The man who produces while others dispose of his product is a slave.
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There is no such dichotomy as 'human rights' versus 'property rights.' No human rights can exist without property rights.
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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.
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The only proper purpose of a government is to protect man's rights, which means: to protect him from physical violence.
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The essential characteristic of socialism is the denial of individual property rights.
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The doctrine that 'human rights' are superior to 'property rights' simply means that some human beings have the right to make property out of others.
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Since there is no such entity as 'the public,' since the public is merely a number of individuals, the idea that 'the public interest' supersedes private interests and rights can have but one meaning: that the interests and rights of some individuals take precedence over the interests and rights of others.
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The only power any government has is the power to crack down on criminals. Well, when there aren't enough criminals, one makes them. One declares so many things to be a crime that it becomes impossible for men to live without breaking laws.
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Capitalism is a social system based on the recognition of individual rights, including property rights, in which all property is privately owned.
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