Ayn Rand Quotes

Government is nothing but regulated force; force is its appropriate claim upon your attention

The heart of government, coated with whatever velvet gloves you want to put on it, is a mailed fist of force and coercion.

Potentially, a government is the most dangerous threat to man's rights: it holds a legal monopoly on the use of physical force against legally disarmed victims.

Aggression is simply another name for government.

The state is force incarnate, its essence is command and compulsion.

There is no force greater than the state force.

Government is an association of men who do violence to the rest of us.

Government holds a legal monopoly on the use of physical force.

A popular government wields a moral force, which is infinitely superior to the physical force that the foreign government could summon to its assistance.

Taxation is robbery based on monopoly of weapons

Briefly, the State is that organization in society which attempts to maintain a monopoly of the use of force and violence in a given territorial area; in particular, it is the only organization in society that obtains its revenue not by voluntary contribution or payment for services rendered but by coercion.

Government is an apparatus of compulsion and coercion.

Government is not capable of caring. Government gets things done through coercion. They fine, they penalize, they tax, they confiscate, they jail, they bully to get what they want.

The single definition of government I've ever seen that makes sense is that it's the organization which claims the right to kill people who won't do what it wants.

The one thing government has which we (you or I or any corporation) DON'T have, is the ability to use deadly force to accomplish its goals.

All governments, without exception, are stable only insofar as they can effectively reward and punish.

Governmental power is the faculty to beat into submission all those who would dare to disobey the orders issued by the authorities. … Every governmental action is backed by constables, prison guards, and executioners. However beneficial a governmental action may appear, it is ultimately made possible only by the government's power to compel its subjects to do what many of them would not do if they were not threatened by the police and the penal courts.

Tell me if ever in history there was a government which was based exclusively upon the consent of the people, and which was ready to dispense altogether with the use of force. There has never been and never will be such a government.

Government, in it's last analysis, is organized force.

There's a very good reason that governments aren't supposed to compete with private-enterprise companies. Governments have monopolies on certain things, like eminent domain and deadly force.

Governments don't control things. A government can't control the economy without controlling people.

Government can't do anything for you except in proportion as it can do something to you.

What is this thing we call government? Is it anything but organized violence? The law orders you to obey, and if you don't obey, it will compel you by force - all governments, all law and authority finally rest on force and violence, on punishment or fear of punishment.

Once abolish the God, and the Government becomes the God.

You get the same order of criminality from any State to which you give power to exercise it; and whatever power you give the State to do things for you carries with it the equivalent power to do things to you.