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“He explained that the decadence of architecture had come when private property replaced the communal spirit of the Middle Ages, and that the selfishness of individual owners--who built for no purpose save to satisfy their own bad taste, “all claim to an individual taste is bad taste”--had ruined the planned effect of cities. He demonstrated that there was no such thing as free will, since men's creative impulses were determined, as all else, by the economic structure of the epoch in which they lived.”
― Ayn Rand, The Fountainhead

“Oh, I don't think he approves of marriage. Not that he preaches anything immoral, but he's always told me marriage is old-fashioned, an economic device to perpetuate the institution of private property, or something like that or anyway that he doesn't like it.”
― Ayn Rand, The Fountainhead

“We'd all be a heap sight better off if we'd forget the highfalutin notions of our fancy civilization and mind more what the savages knew long before us: to honor our mother.”
― Anonymous

“Another way Epicurus thought he could cure his followers of their fear of death was by pointing out the difference between what we feel about the future and what we feel about the past.”
― Nigel Warburton

“Plato thought that letting the people vote was like letting the passengers steer a ship – far better to let people who knew what they were doing take charge.”
― Nigel Warburton