Faith and force ... are corollaries: every period of history dominated…

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Faith and force ... are corollaries: every period of history dominated by mysticism, was a period of statism, of dictatorship, of tyranny. ✨ Ayn Rand (1988). The Ayn Rand Lexicon: Objectivism from A to Z, p.174, Penguin
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Faith and force ... are corollaries: every period of history dominated by mysticism, was a period of statism, of dictatorship, of tyranny. ✨ Ayn Rand (1988). The Ayn Rand Lexicon: Objectivism from A to Z, p.174, Penguin

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