Since only an individual man can possess rights, the expression “individual rights” is a redundancy (which… — Ayn Rand
Since only an individual man can possess rights, the expression “individual rights” is a redundancy (which one has to use for purposes of clarification in today's intellectual chaos). But the expression “collective rights” is a contradiction in terms.
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