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Civilization is the progress toward a society of privacy. The savage's whole existence is public, ruled by the laws of his tribe. Civilization is the process of setting man free from men. ↗

— Ayn Rand

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Do not ever say that the desire to "do good" by force is a good motive. Neither power-lust nor stupidity are good motives. ↗

— Ayn Rand

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If any civilization is to survive, it is the morality of altruism that men have to reject. ↗

— Ayn Rand

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When man learns to understand and control his own behavior as well as he is learning to understand and control the behavior of crop plants and domestic animals, he may be justified in believing that he has become civilized. ↗

— Ayn Rand

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God... a being whose only definition is that he is beyond man's power to conceive. ↗

— Ayn Rand

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Individual rights are the means of subordinating society to moral law. ↗

— Ayn Rand

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Rights are not a matter of numbers - and there can be no such thing, in law or in morality, as actions forbidden to an individual, but permitted to a mob. ↗

— Ayn Rand

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In fact, it used to be a joke if you studied at a University. ↗

— Tony Randall

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The young actors coming out of the Universities are well trained. ↗

— Tony Randall

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At least 23,000 civilians have also died in the Iraqi killing field and the U.S. is stuck in a quagmire. ↗

— Charles Rangel

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