Volumes can be and have been written about the issue of freedom versus…

Ayn Rand
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Volumes can be and have been written about the issue of freedom versus dictatorship, but, in essence, it comes down to a single question: do you consider it moral to treat men as sacrificial animals and to rule them by physical force? ✨ Ayn Rand (1988). The Ayn Rand Lexicon: Objectivism from A to Z, p.141, Penguin
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