Ayn Rand, December 17, 1961
“Under the antitrust laws- which are a mess of uncompliable unjudicable contradictions- a man becomes a criminal from the moment he goes into business, no matter what he does.”
“There is only one difference in the legal treatment according to a criminal or a business man: the criminal’s rights are protected much more securely and objectively than the businessman’s”
“Every dictatorship or potential dictatorship needs some minority group as a scapegoat which it can blame for the nation’s troubles and use as a justification of its own demands for dictatorial powers.”
“In Soviet Russia, the scapegoat was the bourgeoisie; in Nazi Germany it was the Jewish people; in America it is the businessman. How can people who profess to oppose discrimination against any minority reconcile their stand with the fact that they recognize the worker’s right to their livelihood, yet deny the businessmen’s right to their livelihood?”
