Quotes About Collectivism

Utopians...consider individual freedom as the stumbling block on which the grandiose idea of mankind's totalization may flounder.

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.

There is no one great man. Only millions of men and women in possession of tiny pieces of greatness, which when put together, when assembled in the aggregate make the whole. I am a piece of a very large jigsaw puzzle. One of the corner pieces. The one you go for first - important for a time, different from most of the others. But then, in the end, in the big picture, just one of many.

The future belongs to socialism

You cannot make a man by standing a sheep on its hind-legs. But by standing a whole flock of sheep in that position you can make a crowd of men.

Who is this person that you call "All"?—It is "society"!—But is it corporeal, then?—We are its body!—You? Why, you are not a body yourselves;—you, sir, are corporeal to be sure, you too, and you, but you all together are only bodies, not a body. Accordingly the united society may indeed have bodies at its service, but no one body of its own. Like the "nation" of the politicians, it will turn out to be nothing but a "spirit," its body only semblance.

So the people--humanity or the family--have up to now, as it seems, played history: no egoistic interest was supposed to arise in these societies, but only universal, national, or popular interests, class interests, family interests, and "universal human interests".

To produce the Music of the Spheres, the Harmonies of the Heavens, we need a collectivist, communitarian world where strong, autonomous individuals know that they get the best from themselves by getting the best from others. By helping others we most of all help ourselves

Zoals het mooie Franse woord 'ménage' aangeeft, dat zowel 'huishouden' als 'zuinigheid' betekent, vertegenwoordigden het echtpaar en het gezin het laatste eilandje van primitief collectivisme binnen de liberale samenleving. De seksuele bevrijding leidde tot de vernietiging van die tussengemeenschappen, de laatste buffers tussen het individu en de markt. Dat vernietigingsproces gaat ook nu nog onverminderd door.

I saw the significance of this pattern immediately. The men all had individual opinions. The feminists all had the same opinion. The men embraced individualism. The feminists embraced collectivism.

The capitalists praise individualism, socialists rely more upon humanism and for the communists it's all about collectivism.

The ideology of collectivism versus individualism, The "I", the individual, must be left behind and allow the "we", the citizens, to take form first.

You don't wish for things but you get them. Everything belongs to everyone.

It is individualism and collectivism that cancel each other out; properly understood, the corporate and the personal reinforce one another.4

Finding himself,' for modern man, means dissolving himself in any collective entity.

The three hypostasis of egoism are: individualism, nationalism, collectivism. The democratic trinity.

En este siglo toda empresa colectiva edifica prisiones. Sólo el egoísmo nos impide colaborar en vilezas. Hoy los copartícipes terminan en cómplices.

The worst [type of] totalitarianism is not that of a state or a nation, but of society: society as the all-encompassing goal of all goals.

Totalitarismus" ist die empirische Realität des "Gemeinwillens" (Volonté générale)

The foetus is the property of the entire society.Anyone having children is a deserter who abandons the laws of national continuity.

Humans, in order to rise above the animals, had learned how to convert themselves into nothing more than organs or limbs or even disposable fingernails and hair of a larger metaphorical organism.