Definitions are the guardians of rationality, the first line of defense against the chaos of mental disintegration.
Ayn RandIndependence is the only gauge of human virtue and value. What a man is and makes of himself; not what he has or hasnโt done for others. There is no substitute for personal dignity.
Ayn RandCollectivism is the ancient principle of savagery. ... Collectivism is not the 'New Order of Tomorrow.' It is the order of a very dark yesterday.
Ayn RandAs a cultural-intellectual power and a moral ideal, collectivism died in World War II. If we are still rolling in its direction, it is only by the inertia of a void and the momentum of disintegration. A social movement that began with the ponderous, brain-cracking, dialectical constructs of Hegel and Marx, and ends up with a horde of morally unwashed children stamping their foot and shrieking: "I want it now is through."
Ayn Rand