Every major horror of history was committed in the name of an altruistic motive. America's abundance was not created by public sacrifices to 'the common good,' but by the productive genius of free men who pursued their own personal interests and the making of their own private fortunes. The man who lets a leader prescribe his course is a wreck being towed to the scrap heap. An artist recreates those aspects of reality which represent his fundamental view of man's nature.
Civilisation is the progress toward a society of privacy.
The savage's whole existence is public, ruled by the laws of his tribe. Civilisation is the process of setting man free from men. The ladder of success is best climbed by stepping on the rungs of opportunity. He had a big head and a face so ugly it became almost fascinating. Not in the sense of problem solving, but in the sense of exercising discrimination, judgment, awareness.