Quotes About Collectivism

I'm fascinated by the whole communist thing. No one has a lot, but everyone is the same. I like that way of living.

In my opinion, our downfall began when we started to think of ourselves as 'individuals'.

A nation cannot long remain strong when every man belonging to it is individually weak

Democracy extends the sphere of personal independence; socialism confines it. Democracy values each man at his highest; socialism makes of each man an agent, an instrument, a number. Democracy and socialism have but one thing in common—equality. But note well the difference. Democracy aims at equality in liberty. Socialism desires equality in constraint and in servitude.

Steven Pinker dristar sig till och med till att hävda att högre intelligens leder till mer klassiskt liberala attityder, som individualism och frihet framför tradition, auktoritet och kollektivism.

Rather, members of collectivist cultures make decisions based on the counsel of elders—parents, aunts or uncles. The highest goal and virtue in this sort of culture is supporting the community. This makes people happy (makarios).

In collectivist societies, conversion is not strictly an individual decision, so it is often not an individual experience.

The foundation of collectivism is simple: There should be no important economic differences among people. No one should be too rich.

The functional defect of socialism is that it is not social. It has not helped the poor man by eradicating the prince; it has only made the prince poor. If it has not put a chicken in every pot, it has removed the peacock from every lawn. It has made liberality a casualty of an artifact called liberalism. Such may satisfy the motive of envy; it is irrelevant to the motive of charity, and in the collectivist bosom it engenders the very greed it scorned.

Communism will win.

Progressives control America's schools and text book industry and they dishonestly leave the ugliest parts of the collectivist story out.

The individualist is an atom thinking about himself (Thank God I am not as other men); the communist, too often, is an atom having ecstasies of self-denial (Thank God I am one in a crowd).

the chief argument of this book is that the unique powers and initiative of each individual must be rediscovered, and used as a basis for work which contributes to the good of the community, rather than melted down in the collectivist pot of conformity.

The weapons of hate and fear by which the collectivists have moved a generation of Americans to sell their freedom and integrity for security would never have worked had American roots in basic Judaic-Christian traditions not first been severed. God could not be replaced by Government as the source of all blessings until moral concepts were first blurred.

Liberalism is like this: Purporting to offer a middle ground between radical individualism and collectivism, what it really gives us is a diabolical synthesis of the two, a bureaucratically managed libertinism.

these are things that put pure socialism so far into the future. If men will not act for themselves, what will they do when the benefit of their effort is for all?

People are so selfish that they do not unite even to fight for their respective fundamental fight unless and until each person's self-interest is only involved.

When a hundred men stand together, each of them loses his mind and gets another one.

The conservative knows that freedom without any restraints may lead to oppression or anarchy, just as government without any restraints may lead to collectivism. But he believes the best and most effective restraint upon anarchic individualism to be obedience to moral law, the private conscience.

The accumulation of personal property allowed people to make more and more individualistic choices about their lives, and those choices unavoidably diminished group efforts toward a common good.

Humans have to realise they're not individuals but individual parts of the same organism, with responsibility to each other.

Silly. Moon for you?" "No, the moon is for everyone," I said. "Tree is for everyone." Pixies, the first communists.

Under communism, individuals are merely a means to be used toward the achievement of the ends of the collective nation-state. Thus, individuals can be easily sacrificed for the nation-state's goals.

Collective will supplants individual whim