Ayn Rand The Individual vs The Collective

“The contest has another name: the individual against the collective. The ‘common good’ of a collective, a race, a class, a state, was the claim and justification of every tyranny ever established over men. Every major horror of history was committed in the name of an altruistic motive. Has any act of selfishness ever equaled the carnage perpetrated by disciples of altruism?”

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