“It is true that the virtues which are less esteemed and practiced
now--independence, self-reliance, and the willingness to bear risks, the
readiness to back one's own conviction against a majority, and the
willingness to voluntary cooperation with one's neighbors--are
essentially those on which the of an individualist society rests.
Collectivism has nothing to put in their place, and in so far as it
already has destroyed then it has left a void filled by nothing but the
demand for obedience and the compulsion of the individual to what is
collectively decided to be good.”
