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 RandTo abstain from condemning a torturer, is to become an accessory to the torture and murder of his victims.
Ayn RandThe meaning ascribed in popular usage to the word 'selfishness' is not merely wrong: it represents a devastating intellectual 'package-deal,' which is responsible, more than any other single factor, for the arrested moral development of mankind.
Ayn RandIndiscriminate tolerance and indiscriminate condemnation are not two opposites: they are two variants of the same evasion. To declare that โeverybody is whiteโ or โeverybody is blackโ or โeverybody is neither white nor black, but gray,โ is not a moral judgment, but an escape from the responsibility of moral judgment.
Ayn Rand