Collectivism Quote by Friedrich August von Hayek

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

The historical experience of socialist countries has sadly demonstrated that collectivism does not do away with alienation but rather increases it, adding to it…

— Pope John Paul II

“Collectivism leads to concentration camps, leader worship and war.”

— George Orwell

Civilization is now under the tyranny of relativism.

— Pope Benedict XVI

“Collectivists begin by proclaiming a revolutionary principle - the abolition of private property - and then they deny it, no sooner than proclaimed, by…

— Pyotr Kropotkin

In proportion as the people are accustomed to manage their affairs by their own active intervention, instead of leaving them to the government, their…

— John Stuart Mill

Tyranny naturally arises out of democracy.

— Plato

“the only secure basis for oligarchy is collectivism. Wealth”

— George Orwell

All government, all exercise of power, no matter in what form, which is not based in love and directed by knowledge, is a tyranny.

— Anna Brownell Jameson

Throwing off despotism and tyranny is our history and part of our national identity - something in which we can take incredible pride.

— Mike Crapo

The combination of economic and political power in the same hands is a sure recipe for tyranny.

— Milton Friedman

Since the State thrives on what it expropriates, the general decline in production that it induces by its avarice foretells its own doom. Its…

— Frank Chodorov