 “The Randian strategic view is… before you can do anything politically you have to have everyone agree with Randian philosophy; free will, concept and percept and all the other crap… Since you are not going to have that in practice you have just regular statists.”
Murray N. Rothbard
http://mises.org:88/Rothbard1989
If men were like ants, there would be no interest in human freedom. If individual men, like ants, were uniform, interchangeable, devoid of specific personality traits of their own, then who would care whether they were free or not? Who, indeed, would care if they lived or died? The glory of the human race is the uniqueness of each individual, the fact that every person, though similar in many ways to others, possesses a completely individuated personality of his own. It is the fact of each person's uniqueness—the fact that no two people can be wholly interchangeable—that makes each and every man irreplaceable and that makes us care whether he lives or dies, whether he is happy or oppressed. And, finally, it is the fact that these unique personalities need freedom for their full development that constitutes one of the major arguments for a free society.
Murray N. Rothbard
Freedom, Inequality, Primitivism and the Division of Labor
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