"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."
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Goddess of the Market: Ayn Rand and the American Right, 2009, p. 100
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Ayn Rand
1905 – 1982
Zitiert aus "Wer ist John Galt", deutsche Ăśbersetzung von Barbara Klau und HansjĂĽrgen Wille, GEWIS Verlag, Hamburg 1997, ISBN 978-3932564031
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