Observe how many people evade, rationalize and drive their minds into …

Ayn Rand
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Observe how many people evade, rationalize and drive their minds into a state of blind stupor, in dread of discovering that those they deal with- their loved ones or friends or business associates or political rulers- are not merely mistaken, but evil. Observe that this dread leads them to sanction, to help and to spread the very evil whose existence they fear to acknowledge. ✨ Ayn Rand (1999). Ayn Rand Reader, p.136, Penguin
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