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Where the individual ends and the collective begins.

These quotes trace collectivism as both a political charge and a genuine idea, from a warning about a decades-long drift toward socialism to a claim crediting Islamic monotheistic tradition with first framing the individual as a responsible moral agent. Together they show how the same term gets used to praise, warn, and analyze history.

Last Updated on May 30, 2021

Long
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Nov 07, 2020

Everybody in this society that has been lurching toward socialism and collectivism for 40 years has their hand out. And the propensity of Congress is to spend, spend, elect, elect. That hasn't changed, and it isn't going to change for a long time.

Quotes by William E. Simon

Genuine
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Nov 07, 2020

Europe certainly needs a genuine conservative movement to combat the creeping bureaucratic collectivism that is stifling the human potential of the Continent.

Quotes by Robert Zubrin

Man
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Nov 07, 2020

There are strengths in Islamic tradition. Islam actually, as a monotheistic religion, which defined man as a responsible agent by itself, created the idea of the individual in the Middle East and saved it from the communitarianism, the collectivism of the tribe.

Quotes by Mustafa Akyol

Life
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Nov 07, 2020

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

Quotes by Mikhail Gorbachev

Discredit
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Nov 07, 2020

The goals of Russia since 1917 have been to destroy capitalism, discredit democracy, and show that Communist collectivism was the greatest social and political system in the world.

Quotes by Malcolm Nance

Whether discussing Soviet strategy since 1917 or the tension between personal liberty and shared responsibility, these lines sit at the center of long-running political debate. See related arguments in our Democracy and Change quote collections.

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