Action Quote by Ayn Rand

The main characteristic of collectivism is that it does not take notice of the individual's will and moral self-determination. In the light of its…

— Ludwig von Mises

Collectivism holds that the individual has no rights, that his life and work belong to the group (to "society," to the tribe, the state,…

— Ayn Rand

Collectivism takes on many guises and seldom uses its own real name. Words like 'community' and 'social' soothe us into thinking that collectivist decision-making…

— Doug Bandow

I am not an individualist in the Western sense. Collectivism can become oppressive when it tries to dictate; the rights of the two should…

— Asghar Ali Engineer

I don't envisage collectivism. There is no such animal, it is always individualism, sometimes the rest vote and sometimes they do not, and if…

— Gertrude Stein

“A world of fully developed individuals is immune to the cult of collectivism.”

— Bryant McGill

The argument for collectivism is simple if false; it is an immediate emotional argument. The argument for individualism is subtle and sophisticated; it is…

— Milton Friedman

The fight we are in here, make no mistake about it, is a fight of individualism versus collectivism.

— Ayn Rand

“Why should people in one part of the globe have developed collectivist cultures, while others went individualist? The United States is the individualism poster…

— Robert M. Sapolsky

Individualism is the self-affirmation of the individual self as individual self without regard to its participation in its world. As such it is the…

— Paul Tillich

Wikipedia [...] is the product not of collectivism but of unending argumentation.

— Clay Shirky

Among other grand achievements, F. A. Hayek had a remarkable career pointing out the flaws in collectivism. One of his keenest insights was that,…

— Sheldon Richman