A society that robs an individual of the product of his effort, or enslaves him, or attempts to limit the freedom of his mind, or compels him to act against his own rational judgment-a society that sets up a conflict between its edicts and the requirements of manβs natureβis not, strictly speaking, a society, but a mob held together by institutionalized gang-rule. β¨ Ayn Rand, Nathaniel Branden (1965). The virtue of selfishness: a new concept of egoism
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