“Do you know that my personal crusade in life (in the philosophical sense) is not merely to fight collectivism, nor to fight altruism? These are only consequences, effects, not causes. I am out after the real cause, the real root of evil on earth — the irrational.”

—  Ayn Rand

Goddess of the Market: Ayn Rand and the American Right, 2009, p. 100

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