Ayn Rand
Individual rights are not subject to a public vote; a majority has no right to vote away the rights of a minority; the political function of rights is precisely to protect minorities from oppression by majorities (and the smallest minority on earth is the individual).
More quotes and aphorisms
I'm definitely going to miss hearing the sound...Preserve my artistic creativity and ennoble...Even if I knew that tomorrow the world would go to pieces...The best education I have ever received...It's a vast, lonely, forbidding expanse of nothing...Autumn wins you best by this its mute appeal...