Collectivism Quote by Ayn Rand

Psychologist Nathaniel Branden speaks of a benevolent sense of life possible to those with rational, productive values, vividly contrasted with the coercive parasitic group-culture…

— L. Neil Smith

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

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

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

— Bryant McGill

The individual cannot exist on his/her own and the collectivism should respect freedom of conscience. My struggle is about the freedom of thought.

— 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

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

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

For human nature is strange: the less we are inclined to self-sacrifice, the more we insist on it in others.

— Bolesław Prus

Collectivists would have you believe that individualism is merely another word for selfishness, because individualists oppose welfare and other forms of coercive redistribution of…

— G. Edward Griffin