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Ayn Rand

“Altruism holds that man has no right to exist for his own sake, that service to others is the only moral justification of his existence, and that self-sacrifice is his highest moral duty. The political expression of altruism is collectivism or statism, which holds that man's life and work belong to the state - to society, to the group, the gang, the race, the nation - and that the state may dispose of him in any way it pleases for the sake of whatever it deems to be its own tribal, collective good.”

Ayn Rand, The Voice of Reason: Essays in Objectivist Thought
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The Voice of Reason: Essays in Objectivist Thought (The Ayn Rand Library Vol. V) The Voice of Reason: Essays in Objectivist Thought by Ayn Rand
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