Collectivism Quotes

• Racism is the lowest, most crudely primitive form of collectivism.

  Ayn Rand

  Racism, Form, Primitive

  Ayn Rand (1999). “The Return of the Primitive: The Anti-Industrial Revolution”, p.158, Penguin

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• Racism is the lowest, most crudely primitive form of collectivism. It is the notion of ascribing moral, social or political significance to a man’s genetic lineage-the notion that a man’s intellectual and characterologic al traits are produced and transmitted by his internal body chemistry.

  Ayn Rand

  Men, Racism, Political

  Ayn Rand (1999). “The Return of the Primitive: The Anti-Industrial Revolution”, p.148, Penguin

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• Collectivism and freedom are mortal enemies. Only one will survive

  G. Edward Griffin

  Enemy, Mortal Enemies, Mortals

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• Collectivism requires self-sacrifice, the subordination of one's interests to those of others.

  Ayn Rand

  Sacrifice, Self, Subordination

  Ayn Rand (1995). “The Letters of Ayn Rand”, Dutton Adult

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• Collectivism holds that the individual has no rights, that his life and work belong to the group (to "society," to the tribe, the state, the nation) and that the group may sacrifice him at its own whim to its own interests. The only way to implement a doctrine of that kind is by means of brute force - and statism has always been the poltical corollary of collectivism.

  Ayn Rand

  Mean, Sacrifice, Rights

  Ayn Rand (1964). “The Virtue of Selfishness”, p.122, Penguin

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• Ten million ignorances do not constitute one knowledge.

  Klemens von Metternich

  Ignorance, Knowledge, Democracy

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• Good and just society is neither the thesis of capitalism nor the antithesis of communism, but a socially conscious democracy which reconciles the truths of individualism and collectivism.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Democracy, Individualism, Communism

  Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. (2010). “Where Do We Go from Here: Chaos or Community?”, p.216, Beacon Press

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• The primary goal of collectivism - of socialism in Europe and contemporary liberalism in America - is to enlarge governmental supervision of individuals' lives. This is done in the name of equality. People are to be conscripted into one large cohort, everyone equal (although not equal in status or power to the governing class) in their status as wards of a self-aggrandizing government.

  George Will

  Class, Names, America

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• Collectivism is the ancient principle of savagery. ... Collectivism is not the 'New Order of Tomorrow.' It is the order of a very dark yesterday.

  Ayn Rand

  Dark, Order, Yesterday

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• Racism is simply an ugly form of collectivism, the mindset that views humans strictly as members of groups rather than individuals.

  Ron Paul

  Views, Racism, Groups

  "Government and Racism" by Ron Paul, April 16, 2007.

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• Every collectivist revolution rides in on a Trojan horse of "Emergency". It was a tactic of Lenin, Hitler and Mussolini.... The invasion of New Deal Collectivism was introduced by this same Trojan horse.

  Herbert Hoover

  Horse, Political, Tactics

  Herbert Hoover (1952). “Memoirs: The great depression, 1929-1941”

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• A man's admiration of absolute government is proportionate to the contempt he feels for those around him.

  Alexis de Tocqueville

  Men, Admiration, Contempt

  "The Old Regime and the French Revolution".

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• Through the inevitable mismanagement of resources and goods at the disposal of the state, all forms of collectivism lead eventually to tyranny.

  Friedrich August von Hayek

  States, Form, Resources

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• Collectivism means the subjugation of the individual to a group - whether to a race, class or state does not matter. Collectivism holds that man must be chained to collective action and collective thought for the sake of what is called 'the common good'.

  Ayn Rand

  Mean, Men, Class

  "The Only Path to Tommorow". Readers Digest, pp. 88-90, January, 1944.

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• If you look at all forms of collectivism, be it communism or fascism, people are reduced to animals.

  Jack Larson

  Animal, People, Looks

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• 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 is somehow higher and nobler than individual or 'selfish' decision-making. But the cold fact is that communities do not make decisions. Individuals who claim to speak for the community impose their decisions on us all.

  Doug Bandow

  Real, Selfish, Thinking

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  Remember, democracy never lasts long. It soon wastes, exhausts, and murders itself. There never was a democracy yet that did not commit suicide.

  John Adams

  Suicide, Freedom, Suicidal

  Letter from John Adams to John Taylor, 15 Apr. 1814

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• 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 opposite of collectivism, the self affirmation of the self as part of a larger whole without regard to its character as an individual self.

  Paul Tillich

  Character, Self, Opposites

  Paul Tillich (1988). “Writings on religion”

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• One man with a gun can control 100 without one.

  Vladimir Lenin

  Gun, Men, Leader

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

  Ayn Rand

  Mistake, Fighting, Individualism

  "Is Paul Ryan for or against Ayn Rand?" by Gary Weiss, www.cnn.com. August 14, 2012.

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• More socialism means more democracy, openness and collectivism in everyday life.

  Mikhail Gorbachev

  Mean, Eugenics, Everyday

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Every collectivist revolution rides in on a Trojan horse of EMERGENCY.

  Herbert Hoover

  Horse, Tyrants, Emergencies

  Herbert Hoover (1952). “Memoirs: The great depression, 1929-1941”

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• Individual rights are not subject to a public vote; a majority has no right to vote away the rights of a minority; the political function of rights is precisely to protect minorities from oppression by majorities (and the smallest minority on earth is the individual).

  Ayn Rand

  Freedom, Rights, Political

  Ayn Rand (1964). “The Virtue of Selfishness”, p.100, Penguin

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• I think a major reason why intellectuals tend to move towards collectivism is that the collectivist answer is a simple one. If there's something wrong, pass a law and do something about it.

  Milton Friedman

  Moving, Simple, Thinking

  Milton Friedman (2017). “Milton Friedman on Freedom: Selections from The Collected Works of Milton Friedman”, p.65, Hoover Press

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• Socialism, whether it's the 'soft tyranny' of the EuroAmerican management state or the murderously repressive forms taken by Hitler, Stalin, Mao, or Pol Pot, is all about disindividuation, a steady, relentless erasure of the individual differences among us, everything that makes us who we are. 'Everybody in, nobody out!' is the marching mantra of militant collectivized medicine, but it accurately describes all other aspects of collectivism as well. No alternatives allowed, no choices, no individualism, no individuality, and ultimately, no individuation.

  L. Neil Smith

  Taken, Individual Differences, Medicine

  "Back to the Trees!". The Libertarian Enterprise, www.ncc-1776.org. April 11, 2010.

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