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The Virtue of Selfishness Quotes

We are fast approaching the stage of the ultimate inversion: the stage where the government is free to do anything it pleases, while the citizens may act only by permission; which is the stage of the darkest periods of human history, the stage of rule by brute force.

Source:Chapte 14. The Nature of Government, Page 109
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Ayn Rand (The Virtue of Selfishness: A New Concept of Egoism Quotes)
  • Book: The Virtue of Selfishness
  • Writer: Ayn Rand
  • Genre: Essays, Ethics
  • Published: 1964
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