The necessary consequence of man's right to life is his right to self-defense. In a civilized society, force may be used only in retaliation and only against those who initiate its use. All the reasons which make the initiation of physical force an evil, make the retaliatory use of physical force a moral imperative. If some "pacifist" society renounced the retaliatory use of force, it would be left helplessly at the mercy of the first thug who decided to be immoral. Such a society would achieve the opposite of its intention: instead of abolishing evil, it would encourage and reward it.
Ayn RandThe only power any government has is the power to crack down on criminals. Well, when there aren
Ayn RandEconomics departments are dominated by Marxism, which is taken straight or on the rocks, in the form of Keynesianism.
Ayn Rand