Ayn Rand (1905–1982) Russian-American novelist and philosopher
Ayn Rand Ford Hall Forum lecture, 1974, text published on the website of The Ayn Rand Institute http://www.aynrand.org/site/PageServer?pagename=media_america_at_war_israeli_arab_conflict
“Civilized men are more discourteous than savages because they know they can be impolite without having their skulls split, as a general thing.”
"The Tower of the Elephant" (1933)
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