"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

#Mean Quotes #Sacrifice Quotes #Rights Quotes

“One of the hardest things for me, now that I'm famous, is finding people who can read my stuff and give me an honest critique.”
“There should not be a question of legal or illegal immigration. People came and immigrated to this country from the time of the Indians. No ones illegal. They should just be able to come.”
“What's good in the hood?”
“But what Web services suggest is that the connection is always there between an application that is resident somewhere in the cloud, and a user who is somewhere on the other end of a connection.”

Source : "Interview: Symantec's John Thompson talks about big picture security". Interview with Ed Scannell, www.infoworld.com. June 16, 2004.
“Reality bites. Micron underlines that despite the market run-up recently, there's still no confidence about growth and earnings.”

Source : "Techs sink European markets", www.cnn.com. December 18, 2002.
“When I started doing my work years ago, I had doubts as to whether the informed-consent question was answerable.”

Source : Interview with David Steinberg, www.nearbycafe.com. May 25, 1994.
“A chip on the shoulder is too heavy a piece of baggage to carry through life.”

Source : Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.
“The problem is that the things demanded by an empire, which is staying power, ruthlessness, the ability and the willingness to use its power around the world, it's something that democracies tend to be quite skeptical about.”

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