--- title: "13 Collectives Quotes By Ayn Rand" description: "13 Collectives quotes by Ayn Rand. Plus more from Ayn Rand and more Collectives sayings from other authors." image: "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/7f6/ayn-rand-59_collective_any-group-or-collective-large-or-small-i_472379.jpg" --- > [Any group or "collective", large or small, is only a number of individuals. A group can have no rights other than the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ayn-rand/any-group-or-collective-large-or-small-is-only-a-number-of-2/) [Ayn Rand](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ayn-rand/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/7f6/ayn-rand-59_collective_any-group-or-collective-large-or-small-i_472379.jpg) > [I dont work with collectives. I don't consult, i don't co-operate, I don't collaborate.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ayn-rand/i-dont-work-with-collectives-i-don-t-consult-i-don-t-co-operate-i-don/) [Ayn Rand](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ayn-rand/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/f0c/ayn-rand-59_collaborate_i-dont-work-with-collectives-i-don-t-con_126137.jpg) > [Capitalism is based on individual rights - not on the sacrifice of the individual to the 'public good' of the collective.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ayn-rand/capitalism-is-based-on-individual-rights-not-on-the-sacrifice-of-the/) [Ayn Rand](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ayn-rand/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/a79/ayn-rand-59_capitalism_capitalism-is-based-on-individual-rights_178119.jpg) > [Just as there is no such thing as a collective or racial mind, so there is no such thing as a collective…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ayn-rand/just-as-there-is-no-such-thing-as-a-collective-or-racial-mind-so/) [Ayn Rand](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ayn-rand/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/c87/ayn-rand-59_achievement_just-as-there-is-no-such-thing-as-a-coll_2806461.jpg) > [ Man holds these rights \[life, liberty and property\], not from the Collective nor for the Collective, but against the Collective - as… ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ayn-rand/man-holds-these-rights-life-liberty-and-property-not-from-the/) [Ayn Rand](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ayn-rand/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/485/ayn-rand-59_barriers_man-holds-these-rights-life-liberty-and_3150091.jpg) > [If men want to oppose war, it is statism that they must oppose. So long as they hold the tribal notion that…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ayn-rand/if-men-want-to-oppose-war-it-is-statism-that-they-must-oppose-so-long/) [Ayn Rand](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ayn-rand/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/9e9/ayn-rand-59_collectives_if-men-want-to-oppose-war-it-is-statism_1147845.jpg) > [But the mind is an attribute of the individual. There is no such thing as a collective brain. There is no such…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ayn-rand/but-the-mind-is-an-attribute-of-the-individual-there-is-no-such-thing/) [Ayn Rand](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ayn-rand/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/5be/ayn-rand-59_agreement_but-the-mind-is-an-attribute-of-the-indi_1759210.jpg) > [Since only an individual man can possess rights, the expression "individual rights"? is a redundancy (which one has to use for purposes…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ayn-rand/since-only-an-individual-man-can-possess-rights-the-expression/) [Ayn Rand](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ayn-rand/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/10c/ayn-rand-59_chaos_since-only-an-individual-man-can-possess_281929.jpg) > [Collectivism means the subjugation of the individual to a group - whether to a race, class or state does not matter. Collectivism…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ayn-rand/collectivism-means-the-subjugation-of-the-individual-to-a-group/) [Ayn Rand](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ayn-rand/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/4c7/ayn-rand-59_action_collectivism-means-the-subjugation-of-th_307804.jpg) > [Any group or "collective," large or small, is only a number of individuals. A group can have no rights other than the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ayn-rand/any-group-or-collective-large-or-small-is-only-a-number-of/) [Ayn Rand](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ayn-rand/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/82d/ayn-rand-59_agreement_any-group-or-collective-large-or-small-i_256881.jpg) > [Socialism is the doctrine that man has no right to exist for his own sake, that his life and his work do…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ayn-rand/socialism-is-the-doctrine-that-man-has-no-right-to-exist-for-his-own/) [Ayn Rand](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ayn-rand/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/c6d/ayn-rand-59_collective-good_socialism-is-the-doctrine-that-man-has-n_661326.jpg) > [A “collective” mind does not exist. It is merely the sum of endless numbers of individual minds. If we have an endless…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ayn-rand/a-collective-mind-does-not-exist-it-is-merely-the-sum-of-endless/) [Ayn Rand](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ayn-rand/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/2a5/ayn-rand-59_accepting_a-collective-mind-does-not-exist-it-is-m_10617.jpg) > [“All I mean is that a board of directors is one or two ambitious men--and a lot of ballast. I mean that…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ayn-rand/all-i-mean-is-that-a-board-of-directors-is-one-or-two-ambitious-men/) [Ayn Rand](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ayn-rand/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/fe7/ayn-rand-59_board_all-i-mean-is-that-a-board-of-directors_2625789.jpg) ## Other authors on Collectives ## More by Ayn Rand > [There are no white lies, there is only the blackest of destruction, and a white lie is the blackest of all.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ayn-rand/there-are-no-white-lies-there-is-only-the-blackest-of-destruction-and/) [Ayn Rand](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ayn-rand/) > [She watched the prairies the rivers, the towns slipping past at an untouchable distance below - and she noted that the sense of detachment…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ayn-rand/she-watched-the-prairies-the-rivers-the-towns-slipping-past-at-an/) [Ayn Rand](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ayn-rand/) > [“This was reality, she thought, this sense of clear outlines, of purpose, of lightness, of hope.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ayn-rand/this-was-reality-she-thought-this-sense-of-clear-outlines-of-purpose/) [Ayn Rand](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ayn-rand/) > [A “collective” mind does not exist. It is merely the sum of endless numbers of individual minds. If we have an endless number of…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ayn-rand/a-collective-mind-does-not-exist-it-is-merely-the-sum-of-endless/) [Ayn Rand](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ayn-rand/) > [Lobbying' is the activity of attempting to influence legislation by privately influencing the legislators. It is the result and creation of a mixed economy-of…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ayn-rand/lobbying-is-the-activity-of-attempting-to-influence-legislation-by/) [Ayn Rand](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ayn-rand/) > [“She moved her hand and let it rest against his. He did not withdraw his fingers and he did not pretend indifference. She bent…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ayn-rand/she-moved-her-hand-and-let-it-rest-against-his-he-did-not-withdraw/) [Ayn Rand](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ayn-rand/) > [This miracle of me is mine to own and keep, and mine to guard, and mine to use, and mine to kneel before.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ayn-rand/this-miracle-of-me-is-mine-to-own-and-keep-and-mine-to-guard-and-mine/) [Ayn Rand](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ayn-rand/) > [“There was still one response, the greatest, that she had missed. She thought: To find a feeling that would hold, as their sum, as…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ayn-rand/there-was-still-one-response-the-greatest-that-she-had-missed-she/) [Ayn Rand](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ayn-rand/) > [Inflation is not caused by the actions of private citizens, but by the government: by an artificial expansion of the money supply required to…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ayn-rand/inflation-is-not-caused-by-the-actions-of-private-citizens-but-by-the/) [Ayn Rand](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ayn-rand/) > [“We are fornicating in the sight of six billion people.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ayn-rand/we-are-fornicating-in-the-sight-of-six-billion-people/) [Ayn Rand](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ayn-rand/) > [“She was fifteen when it occurred to her for the first time that women did not run railroads and that people might object. To…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ayn-rand/she-was-fifteen-when-it-occurred-to-her-for-the-first-time-that-women/) [Ayn Rand](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ayn-rand/) > [Fransisco, you're some kind of very high nobility, aren't you?" He answered, "Not yet. The reason my family has lasted for such a long…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ayn-rand/fransisco-you-re-some-kind-of-very-high-nobility-aren-t-you-he/) [Ayn Rand](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ayn-rand/) > [Have you felt it too? Have you seen how your best friends love everything about you- except the things that count? And your most…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ayn-rand/have-you-felt-it-too-have-you-seen-how-your-best-friends-love/) [Ayn Rand](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ayn-rand/) > [Every coercive monopoly was created by government intervention into the economy: by special privileges, such as franchises or subsidies, which closed the entry of…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ayn-rand/every-coercive-monopoly-was-created-by-government-intervention-into/) [Ayn Rand](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ayn-rand/) > [We are all brothers under the skin - and I, for one, would be willing to skin humanity to prove it.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ayn-rand/we-are-all-brothers-under-the-skin-and-i-for-one-would-be-willing-to/) [Ayn Rand](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ayn-rand/) ```json { "@context": "https://schema.org", "@graph": [ { "@type": "ItemList", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/collectives/ayn-rand/#itemlist", "name": "13 Collectives Quotes By Ayn Rand", "numberOfItems": 13, "itemListElement": [ { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 1, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "Any group or \"collective\", large or small, is only a number of individuals. 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A group can have no rights other than the rights of its individual members. In a free society, the \"rights\" of any group are derived from the rights of its members through their voluntary individual choice and contractual agreement, and are merely the application of these individual rights to a specific undertaking... 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It is merely the sum of endless numbers of individual minds. If we have an endless number of individual minds who are weak, meek, submissive and impotent – who renounce their creative supremacy for the sake of the “whole” and accept humbly that the “whole’s” verdict – we don’t get a collective super-brain. 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