Page "Economic, social and cultural rights" Paragraph 15

According to Ayn Rand there is no such thing as “ a right to a job ”— there is only the right of free trade, that is: a man ’ s right to take a job if another man chooses to hire him.

There is no “ right to a home ,” only the right of free trade: the right to build a home or to buy it.

There are no “ rights to a ‘ fair ’ wage or a ‘ fair ’ price ” if no one chooses to pay it, to hire a man or to buy his product.

There are no “ rights of consumers ” to milk, shoes, movies or champagne if no producers choose to manufacture such items ( there is only the right to manufacture them oneself ).

There are no “ rights ” of special groups, there are no “ rights of farmers, of workers, of businessmen, of employees, of employers, of the old, of the young, of the unborn .” There are only the Rights of Man — rights possessed by every individual man and by all men as individuals.

If some men are entitled by right to the products of the work of others, it means that those others are deprived of rights and condemned to slave labor.

Any alleged “ right ” of one man, which necessitates the violation of the rights of another, is not and cannot be a right.

The end does not justify the means.

No one ’ s rights can be secured by the violation of the rights of others.

No man can have a right to impose an unchosen obligation, an unrewarded duty or an involuntary servitude on another man.

There can be no such thing as “ the right to enslave .”