# Quote — Ayn Rand, Capitalism

> Every movement that seeks to enslave a country, 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 businessmen.

- Author: [Ayn Rand](https://www.leafyquotes.com/ayn-rand.md)
- Book: [Capitalism](https://www.leafyquotes.com/ayn-rand/capitalism.md)
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> Let anyone who believes that a high standard of living is the achievement of labor unions and government controls ask himself the following question: If one had a "time machine" and transported the united labor chieftains of America, plus three million government bureaucrats, back to the tenth century—would they be able to provide the medieval serf with electric light, refrigerators, automobiles, and television sets?

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> A gun is not an argument.

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> It is futile to fight against, if one does not know what one is fighting for.

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