People do not cooperate under the division of labor because they love or should love one another. They cooperate because this best serves their own interests. Neither love nor charity nor any other sympathetic sentiments but rightly understood selfishness is what originally impelled man to adjust himself to the requirements of society, to respect the rights and freedoms of his fellow men and to substitute peaceful collaboration for enmity and conflict.
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Society is joint action and cooperation in which each participant sees the other partner's success as a means for the attainment of his own.
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A civilized society is one which tolerates eccentricity to the point of doubtful sanity.
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A touchstone to determine the actual worth of an "intellectual"- find out how he feels about astrology.
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Not only is there no God, but trying getting a plumber on weekends.
The real death of America will come when everyone is alike.
The real death of America will come when everyone is alike.
