
Criminals are a small minority in any age or country. And the harm they have done to mankind is infinitesimal when compared to the horrors-the bloodshed, the wars, the persecutions, the confiscations, the famines, the enslavements, the wholesale destructions-perpetrated by mankind’s governments. Potentially, a government is the most dangerous threat to man’s rights: it holds a legal monopoly on the use of physical force against legally disarmed victims. When unlimited and unrestricted by individual rights, a government is men’s deadliest enemy.
The virtue of selfishness: a new concept of egoism - Página 115, de Ayn Rand, Nathaniel Branden - Publicado por Signet/New American Library, 1964, ISBN 0-451-16393-1, 9780451163936 - 173 páginas