Ayn Rand Quotes About Tyranny

• The right to vote is a consequence, not a primary cause, of a free social system - and its value depends on the constitutional structure implementing and strictly delimiting the voters' power; unlimited majority rule is an instance of the principle of tyranny.

  Ayn Rand

  Majority Rule, Liberty, Principles

  Ayn Rand (1988). “The Ayn Rand Lexicon: Objectivism from A to Z”, p.522, Penguin

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

  Ayn Rand

  Force, Periods, Tyranny

  Ayn Rand (1988). “The Ayn Rand Lexicon: Objectivism from A to Z”, p.174, Penguin

• Ask yourself why totalitarian dictatorships find it necessary to pour money and effort into propaganda for their own helpless, chained, gagged slaves, who have no means of protest or defense. The answer is that even the humblest peasant or the lowest savage would rise in blind rebellion, were he to realize that he is being immolated, not to some incomprehensible noble purpose, but to plain, naked human evil.

  Ayn Rand

  Mean, Tyrants, Evil

  Ayn Rand (1999). “Ayn Rand Reader”, p.136, Penguin

• Power-lust is a weed that grows only in the vacant lots of an abandoned mind.

  Ayn Rand

  Weed, Power, Lust

  Ayn Rand (2016). “Atlas Shrugged”, p.798, Hamilton Books

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