Quotes About Collectivism

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.

I believe that in America, freedom and individual liberty will, in the end, always triumph over class division and collectivism with voters of all stripes.

Westerners say, "I think, therefore I am," with the focus on individual identity apart from social context. Africans say, "We relate, therefore I am"—a

The common good before the individual good.

You are nothing, your Volk is everything.

The historical experience of socialist countries has sadly demonstrated that collectivism does not do away with alienation but rather increases it, adding to it a lack of basic necessities and economic inefficiency.

Success and leadership need to be redefined in communal categories.

Collectivists begin by proclaiming a revolutionary principle - the abolition of private property - and then they deny it, no sooner than proclaimed, by upholding an organization of production and consumption which originated in private property.

By what right then can any one whatever appropriate the least morsel of this immense whole and say--This is mine, not yours?

I always tell employees: 'The group's benefit is more important than your personal benefit.'

The dream of socialists, the Maximum Programme, has always been to eliminate the private property, the family and the nation state. With the private property they have not succeeded, but they continue on the path of destruction of the family and the nation.

How does something immoral, when done privately, become moral when it is done collectively? Furthermore, does legality establish morality? Slavery was legal; apartheid is legal; Stalinist, Nazi, and Maoist purges were legal. Clearly, the fact of legality does not justify these crimes. Legality, alone, cannot be the talisman of moral people.

The public school system is] usually a twelve year sentence of mind control. Crushing creativity, smashing individualism, encouraging collectivism and compromise, destroying the exercise of intellectual inquiry, twisting it instead into meek subservience to authority.

We cannot permit strong chieftains or groups of young Huns to attempt the founding of customs that serve only their purpose. Customs are of nations, not of individuals.

The difference between our outlook and the Socialist outlook is the difference between the ladder and the queue. We are for the ladder. Let all try their best to climb. They are for the queue.

Communisme', c'est l'affirmation que ce qui est commun à tous les hommes doit être l'objet incessant de la pensée, de l'action, de l'organisation.

This is our bottom line, and the will of 1.25 billion Chinese people.

Society does not consist of individuals, but expresses the sum of interrelations, the relations within which these individuals stand.

From each according to their ability, to each according to their need.

Workers of the world unite; you have nothing to lose but your chains.

Tek tek uluslar?n düÅŸünsel yarat?lar? hepsinin ortak mal? olmaktad?r. Ulusal tek yanl?l?k ve dar kafal?l?k her geçen gün biraz daha olanaks?zlaÅŸmakta, çok say?da ulusal ve yerel edebiyattan bir dünya edebiyat? doÄŸmaktad?r.

In this sense, the theory of the Communists may be summed up in the single sentence: Abolition of private property.

Individuals have conquered themselves. Nations and large bodies of men, never.

No man is so great as mankind.