Lack Of Collectivism Quotes

All forms of collectivism are mistaken, according to the human skull. ~ T.H. White

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

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

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

Collectivism and freedom are mortal enemies. Only one will survive ~ G. Edward Griffin

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

The three hypostasis of egoism are: individualism, nationalism, collectivism. The democratic trinity. ~ Nicolas Gomez Davila

The most common reasons teams or individuals underperform are: Lack of clarity and focus Lack of ability Lack of confidence Lack of direction Lack of motivation ~ Anonymous

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

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

Collectivism means the subjugation of the individual to a group - whether to a race, class or state does not matter. Collectivism holds that man must be chained to collective action and collective thought for the sake of what is called 'the common good' ~ Ayn Rand

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. ~ Ayn Rand

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. ~ Milton Friedman

The more propaganda ... conservatives spread for capitalist economics while at the same time preaching collectivism morally and philosophically , the more nails they'll drive into capitalism's coffin. ~ Ayn Rand

Teilhard merely seems to set the problem of man, as the utopian sees it, on lofty heights; yet, hi terminology, which mixes archeology, sociology, biology, astronomy, and a vulgarized theology, can, in fact, be translated at every turn into the language of collectivism and of totalitarian polices. ~ Thomas Molnar

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

We need to strive for more than normality because normality brings lack of fruitfulness, lack of growth, lack of increase and lack of success. ~ Euginia Herlihy

So I shamelessly say, no, I want [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? ~ Rush Limbaugh

It is not lack of ability, but lack of motivation, lack of focus, and lack of self-confidence that prevents most aspiring authors from finishing what they started. ~ Gudjon Bergmann

The 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 ~ Martin Luther King, Jr.

And when you look at the twentieth-century experiment with collectivism-that Ayn Rand, more than anybody else, did such a good job of articulating the pitfalls of statism and collectivism-you can't find another thinker or writer who did a better job of describing and laying out the moral case for capitalism than Ayn Rand. ~ Paul Ryan

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. ~ Gertrude Stein

Detachment is ...
Not lack of love,
but a lack of dependency.
Not lack of passion,
but a lack of attachment
to permanency.
Not lack of security,
but a lack of anxiety
in uncertainty. ~ Drishti Bablani

Collectivism holds that the individual has no rights, that his life and work belong to the group (to "society," to the tribe, the state, the nation) and that the group may sacrifice him at its own whim to its own interests. The only way to implement a doctrine of that kind is by means of brute force - and statism has always been the poltical corollary of collectivism. ~ Ayn Rand

We do not lack communication, on the contrary we have too much of it. We lack creation. We lack resistance to the present. ~ Deleuze Guattari

They died less from lack of food or medicine than from lack of hope, lack of something to live for. ~ Viktor E. Frankl

I don't want to go on much longer, really. I think that would suggest a lack of imagination. A certain lack of dignity also. ~ Morrissey

All oppression starts with the experience of Lack. A lack of ideas, creativity, money, investors, health, friends, love, or kindness. Lack creates the emotional effect of Depression. ~ Deborah Bravandt

Our primary problem as Christian women is not that we lack self-worth, not that we lack a sense of significance. It's that we lack awe. ~ Jen Wilkin

The three values which men held for centuries and which have now collapsed are: mysticism, collectivism, altruism. Mysticism - as a cultural power - died at the time of the Renaissance. Collectivism - as a political ideal - died in World War II. As to altruism - it has never been alive. It is the poison of death in the blood of Western civilization, and men survived it only to the extent to which they neither believed nor practiced it ... ~ Ayn Rand

Foolishness is rarely a matter of lack of intelligence or even lack of information. ~ John McCarthy

Arguments of convenience lack integrity and inevitably trip you up. ~ Donald Rumsfeld

Collectivism leads to concentration camps, leader worship and war. ~ George Orwell

Poverty and lack of knowledge must be challenged. ~ Russell Simmons

It had long been realised that the only secure basis for oligarchy is collectivism. ~ George Orwell

Foolish people laugh at things they do not understand, producing the sound of braying donkeys. ~ Wayne Gerard Trotman

Most men fail, not through lack of education, but from lack of dogged determination, from lack of dauntless will. ~ Orison Swett Marden

I was living for one thing only, and that was to confirm my own lack of feeling. ~ Haruki Murakami

There is no lack in the world. The lack is in you , and if you will stop seeking lack and stop thinking lack ... you will make marvelous demonstrations. ~ Al Koran

[American] conformism might approximate collectivism, not so much in economic respects, and not too much in political respects, but very much in the pattern of daily life and thought. Whether this will happen or not, and if it does to what degree, is partly dependent on the power of resistance in those who represent the opposite pole of the courage to be, the courage to be as oneself. ~ Paul Tillich

Individualism is the self-affirmation of the individual self as individual self without regard to its participation in its world. As such it is the opposite of collectivism, the self affirmation of the self as part of a larger whole without regard to its character as an individual self. ~ Paul Tillich

People who lack vision almost always lack passion. Incompetent leaders are ineffective and they often stay that way. ~ John Maxwell

I think probably the one trait that would concern me about brother Bing would be his lack of responsibility. ~ Bob Crosby

Fear is the result of a lack of confidence. A lack of confidence is the result of not knowing what you can do. A lack of knowing what you can do is caused by a lack of experience. A lack of experience is caused by a lack of doing something new. ~ Dale Carnegie

The lack of education means, the lack of having something I can pull out of a drawer, means I have to find something in any movie I work on that is intensely personal. ~ Hans Zimmer

The very damaging, frightening part of postpartum is the lack of perspective and the lack of priority and understanding what is really important. ~ Brooke Shields

In response to a letter regarding the writer's lack of religious belief:
The lack of faith is not doubt. It is certainty. ~ Abigail Van Buren

The power of lack can trigger so many actions and things! We do because we lack something! We act because we need something! ~ Ernest Agyemang Yeboah

People are not dying of lack of money but of lack of esteem and awareness. ("Kein Schwein ruft mich an") ~ Erik Pevernagie

The lack of understanding of something is not evidence for God. It's evidence of a lack of understanding. ~ Lawrence M. Krauss

It is a lack of commitment, not a lack of talent, that damns you to mediocrity. ~ Roy H. Williams

Leave the mourning to the doves because we will never die. ~ John Lack

The lack of carbohydrates can make you a little crazy. ~ Tom Hardy

It is interesting that for Plato, and for most Platonists, an altruistic individualism cannot exist. According to Plato, the only alternative to collectivism is egoism; he simply identifies all altruism with collectivism, and all individualism with egoism. This is not a matter of terminology, of mere words, for instead of four possibilities, Plato recognized only two. This has created considerable confusion in speculation on ehtical matters, even down to our own day.

Plato's identification of individualism with egoism furnishes him with a powerful weapon for his defence of collectivism as well as for his attack upon individualism. In defending collectivism, he can appeal to our humanitarian feeling of unselfishness; in his attack, he can brand all individualists as selfish, as incapable of devotion to anything but themselves. This attack, although aimed by Plato against individualism in our sense, i.e. against the rights of human individuals, reaches of course only a very different target, egoism. But this difference is constantly ignored by Plato and by most Platonists...

Individualism was part of the old intuitive idea of justice. That justice is not, as Plato would have it, the health and harmony of the state, but rather a certain way of treating individuals, is emphasized by Aristotle, when he says, 'justice is something that pertains to persons. ~ Karl Popper

I think the thing that I most deplore about American writing ... is a lack of craftsmanship. It comes right down to this - the lack of absolute love for language, the lack of sitting down and working a good idea into a gem of an idea. ~ Harper Lee

Faults in English prose derive not so much from lack of knowledge, intelligence or art as from lack of thought, patience or goodwill. ~ Robert Graves

A hand gets way cleaner from washing, not itself, but the other hand. ~ Mokokoma Mokhonoana

Totalitarianism begins with using the word "we" without every I's permission. ~ Jakub Bozydar Wisniewski

The road to evil is paved with socialist intentions. ~ A.E. Samaan

Never before had I imagined leaving home, but that wasn't because of lack of desire, only lack of possibility. ~ Melanie Benjamin

This is a great nation at terrible risk in a dangerous world, and she has fully exposed this nation and will continue to do so because of her utter incompetence and Hillary Clinton lack of care, lack of attention, lack of concern. ~ Rush Limbaugh

He felt useless and degraded, as if he no longer lived for others but for himself alone. ~ Bernard Werber

What is really disappointing about this president is not just lack of leadership, but his tendency to always place the blame for his lack of leadership somewhere else ~ Carly Fiorina

The lack of understanding does not hurt, as much as the lack of effort to understand does ! ~ Wordions

It was not lack of ability that limited my people, but lack of opportunity. ~ Nelson Mandela

God doesn't lack in answer of prayers, we just lack in the art of true faith. #30WordsBook ~ Jarrid Wilson

Lack of romance is my real objection to writing on a computer. ~ P. J. O'Rourke

I never wanted to be an actress who complained about the lack of roles for women. ~ Kelly Rowan

a lack of boldness on our part probably isn't due to a lack of interest from the organization. ~ Julie Straw

Every morning our newspapers could read, 'More than 20,000 people perished yesterday of extreme poverty.' How? The poor die in hospital wards that lack drugs, in villages that lack antimalarial bed nets, in houses that lack safe drinking water. They die namelessly, without public comment. Sadly, sad stories rarely get written. ~ Jeffrey Sachs

What students lack in school is an intellectual relationship or conversation with the teacher. ~ William Glasser

Desperation is not an evidence of hard work, it's a sign of lack of faith ~ Constance Friday

That lack of programmability is probably what ultimately will doom vi. It can't extend its domain. ~ Bill Joy

Is there any more important problem than our lack of need-based scholarships? I think not. ~ James E. Rogers

When people lack jobs, opportunity, and ownership of property they have little or no stake in their communities. ~ Jack Kemp

Lack teaches you the importance of what you are lacking. ~ Innocent Mwatsikesimbe

A lack of planning leads to failure. ~ Sunday Adelaja

That disables a lot of people from achieving goals, it is simply, a lack of willingness to pay for these goals, a lack of willingness to make great effort, a lack of willingness to sacrifice their comfort for those goals. ~ Orison Swett Marden

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 rather this degenerate form of hedonism served powerfully to invest collectivism 's principles with a specious moral sanction, and collectivists naturally made the most of it. ~ Albert J. Nock

Lack of direction, not lack of time, is the problem. We all have twenty-four hour days. ~ Zig Ziglar

There's a lack of knowledge about Iran and the Iranian people. ~ Hooman Majd

Hughes often said that men fail to make progress in learning not for lack of time or ability but for lack of hard work. ~ Douglas Bond

More than a billion people lack adequate access to clean water. ~ David Suzuki

I have no interest in sailing around the world. Not that there is any lack of requests for me to do so. ~ Edward Heath

I mainly read non-fiction, and that's probably because I have a huge amount of insecurity about my lack of education and the things I don't know. ~ Steve Earle

People who lack confidence in their judgement lack confidence in themselves ~ Marie Kondo

Blacks who lack a proper killing rage are merely victims. ~ Bell Hooks

I lack confidence as an actor. ~ Charles Durning

Socialists and Progressives confuse compassion and compulsion. ~ A.E. Samaan

To forgive others, in order to forgive ourselves, because in their roles as our mirrors, they have been nothing other than a tool to our lack of self-love, a lack of self-recognition, and a lack of self-respect. ~ Human Angels

There's a part of bohemia I love. The lack of prejudice, the lack of aggression, I love the lack, for the most part, of competitiveness. It's more peaceful. ~ Peter Mullan

Many sophisticated, intelligent people lack wisdom and common sense. ~ Joyce Meyer

Poverty and lack of education are ruining our planet. ~ Oscar Arias

More writers fail from lack of character than from lack of intelligence. ~ Ezra Pound

I genuinely don't like Los Angeles. L.A. is this little petri dish of lack of morality. ~ Chris Eigeman

Life that did not yearn toward life was in fair way toward ceasing. ~ Jack London

There are wonderful composers and librettists out there. It's the lack of creative producers that is troubling. ~ Harold Prince

Areas where there is a lack of data, or a lack of understanding, are automatically assumed to belong, by default, to God. ~ Richard Dawkins

Babies are endlessly fascinating to look at and I'm obsessed about their complete and utter lack of guile. ~ Minnie Driver

There's no such thing as lack of confidence. You either have it or you don't. ~ Rob Andrew