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An attempt to achieve the good by force is like an attempt to provide a man with a picture gallery at the price of cutting out his eyes.

Ayn Rand
Philosophy, Eye, Cutting
Ayn Rand, Nathaniel Branden, Alan Greenspan, Robert Hessen (1986). “Capitalism: The Unknown Ideal”, p.21, Penguin
An attempt to achieve the good by force is like an attempt to provide a man with a picture gallery at the price of cutting out his eyes.