Collectivism Quotes

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The duel between Christianity and atheism is the most important in the world, and the struggle between individualism and collectivism is the same struggle reproduced on another level.

The fact that so many successful politicians are such shameless liars is not only a reflection on them, it is also a reflection on us. When the people want the impossible, only liars can satisfy.

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

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

Every socialist is a disguised dictator.

People are not embracing collectivism because they have accepted bad economics. They are accepting bad economics because they have embraced collectivism.

War has been the necessary and inevitable consequence of the establishment of a monopoly on security.

We are now moving towards complete collectivism or socialism, a system under which everybody is enslaved to everybody.

I didn't know I was a slave until I found out I couldn't do the things I wanted.

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

Collectivism and freedom are mortal enemies. Only one will survive

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

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

Free-market capitalism is a network of free and voluntary exchanges in which producers work, produce, and exchange their products for the products of others through prices voluntarily arrived at.

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.

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.

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

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 they do they do and if they do not they do not.

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

You know, face painting in non-Western cultures is a sign of collectivism, is a sign of one representing the community, it's not unique at all.

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

Collectivism answers: The power of society is unlimited. Society may make any laws it wishes, and force them upon anyone in any manner it wishes.

The age of the skyscraper is gone. This is the age of the housing project. Which is always a prelude to the age of the cave.

The less justified a man is in claiming excellence for his own self, the more ready is he to claim all excellence for his nation, his religion, his race or his holy cause.

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

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

Lynch mobs are democracies.

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

The argument for collectivism is simple; free market is not.

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

The Church's teaching on ownership diverges radically from collectivism as proclaimed by Marxism and "rigid" capitalism. The primacy of the person over things joint ownership of the means of work.

Collectivism, as an intellectual power and a moral ideal, is dead. But freedom and individualism, and their political expression, capitalism, have not yet been discovered.

All forms of collectivism are mistaken, according to the human skull.

So I shamelessly say, no, I want him [Obama] to fail, if his agenda is a far- left collectivism, some people say socialism, as a conservative heartfelt, deeply, why would I want socialism to succeed?

When the law no longer protects you from the corrupt, but protects the corrupt from you – you know your nation is doomed.

It is amazing how desperately the self-proclaimed revolutionaries grope for their own orthodoxy.

When we give government the power to make medical decisions for us, we in essence accept that the state owns our bodies.

The only common good is the common liberty to pursue individual goods.

Emergencies” have always been the pretext on which the safeguards of individual liberty have eroded.

Collectivists see the world the way Mr. Magoo did—as one big blur. They homogenize people in a communal blender, sacrificing the discrete features that make us who we are.

Big Government' is a lot less like a 'Big Brother', and a lot more like a mother-in-law.

All Socialism is Democratic Socialism. Socialist nations take away civil liberties by referendum.

Which is worse? Lust for the purchasing power of money, or the kind of lust that covets power over others? Let the history of 20th Century socialist revolutions answer that question.

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

Socialists eat their children. The poets, artists, and radicals are murdered first once statists come into power. Statists abhor free thinking.

For 70 years Democrats bitterly denied being "socialists". Bernie Sanders has done the service of exposing them.

I think, therefore I am an individual... not a drone in a collective. I think, therefore I am... Libertarian

Liberty means refusing to allow some men to use the state to compel other men to serve their interests or opinion.

Irony: Taking a 170-year-old envy-based "philosophy, " which has led to the murder of several hundred million human beings and the oppression of billions more, and calling it "progressive".

People and institutions that refuse to admit error eventually discredit themselves.