If men want to oppose war, it is statism that they must oppose. So lon…

Ayn Rand
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If men want to oppose war, it is statism that they must oppose. So long as they hold the tribal notion that the individual is sacrificial fodder for the collective, that some men have the right to rule others by force, and that some (any) alleged “good” can justify it-there can be no peace within a nation and no peace among nations. ✨ Ayn Rand (1988). The Ayn Rand Lexicon: Objectivism from A to Z, p.525, Penguin
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