Fahrenheit 451 Quote Page58

"We must all be alike. Not everyone born free and equal, as the Constitution says, but everyone made equal. Each man the image of every other; then all are happy, for there are nomountains to make them cower, to judge themselves against. So a book is a loaded gun un the house. Burn it. Take the shot from the weapon. Breach the man's mind" -pg 58

Beatty and the superiors of the country believe individualism  is a disease. They believe that it create civil unrest. That with books no one can be happy. That everyone should be alike, if so then maybe just maybe everyone can be happy and content. That means no uprisings, no doubt, just totalitarian control. In essence they are using mind control to keep people happy. They try and trample out the individual person, the less a person can think free the better. The human mind is being filled with quick flashes, fast thrills. Everything is fast and short. This hinders the mind from thinking, from becoming and individual. But their are those that even with all the heavy influence of anti-individual they still are free thinkers. Those that do think freely are quickly squashed out.