Quotes for All
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
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
Individual rights are not subject to a public vote; a majority has no right to vote away the rights of a minority. Ayn Rand
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 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. Asghar Ali Engineer
Altruism demands that an individual serve others, but doesn’t stipulate whether those others should be one’s family, or the homeless, or society as a whole. Collectivism states that, in politics, society comes first and the individual must obey. Collectivism is the application of the altruist ethics to politics. Andrew Bernstein
… statism systematically violates the rights of individuals and is, therefore, immoral. Because it suppresses the mind and violates men’s rights, it thereby causes abysmal poverty and is utterly impractical. Andrew Bernstein
Statism – the subordination of the individual to the state – leads inevitably to the most hideous oppression. Andrew Bernstein
A man’s admiration of absolute government is proportionate to the contempt he feels for those around him. Alexis de Tocqueville
By consequence I hold that no one ever did, or can do, anything for “society.”… Comte invented the term altruism as an antonym for egoism, and it found its way at once into everyone’s mouth, although it is utterly devoid of meaning, since it points to nothing that ever existed in mankind; This hybrid or … Read more