We the Living: 60th Anniversary Edition by Ayn Randfrom page 376 (and I ask this question of the corporatist oligarchy masquerading as a Republic here in the USA):
"But you've tried to tell us what we should want. You came as a solemn army to bring new life to men*. You tore that life you knew nothing about, out of their guts--and you told them what it had to be. You took their every hour, every minute, every nerve, every thought in the farthest corners of their souls--and you told them what it had to be. You came and you forbade life to the living. You've driven us all into an iron cellar and you've closed all doors, and you've locked us airtight, airtight till the blood vessels of our spirits burst! Then you stare and wonder what it's doing to us.
Well, then, look! All of you who have eyes left--look!"
[Unquote.]
*In our case it was an army of salesmen followed by a galactic sized force of bureaucrats, do-gooders, utopianist experimenters, and many other cozy country club betrayers and revilers of God.
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