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1 " Ayn Rand's 'philosophy' is nearly perfect in its immorality, which makes the size of her audience all the more ominous and symptomatic as we enter a curious new phase in our society.... To justify and extol human greed and egotism is to my mind not only immoral, but evil. "
― Gore Vidal
2 " The state is concerned with the promotion of outward righteousness arising from the individual being constrained to keep the law. The Gospel alters human nature, whereas the state merely restrains human greed and evil, having no positive power to alter human motivation. "
― Alister E. McGrath , Reformation Thought
3 " … human needs are finite, but human greed is not … "
― Fritjof Capra , The Systems View of Life: A Unifying Vision