A collective mind does not exist. It is merely the sum of endless numbers of individual minds. If we have an endless number of individual minds who are weak, meek, submissive and impotent – who renounce their creative supremacy for the sake of the whole and accept humbly that the whole's verdict – we don't get a collective super-brain. We get only the weak, meek, submissive and impotent collective mind.

The Journals of Ayn Rand (ed. Penguin, 1999) - ISBN: 9781101137215