Quotes About Individualism

I'm really only responsible for my own actions.

I always rode for myself.

I don't really have a team that I root for.

When a game runs out of your hands is when you look for someone like Pogba to hold the team together and give them rhythm, but I feel he only plays for himself.

Everyone's life is for sale in America.

I'm my own salesman. I can't let anybody do anything for me.

I'm not running for anything but my own seat.

I don't have any assistants, I do it all myself, I don't have any secretaries.

What did I owe the rest of the world? Nothing.

This band doesn't owe anything to anybody.

I don't feel I owe anyone anything.

Democracy gives every man the right to be his own oppressor.

Golf's weird because it's individual, and there's nobody to blame but yourself, but then, golfers also have this it's-everybody-else's-fault thing where you don't take ownership.

Who is most deserving of all of the money that I, Zlatan, am paid? The answer is Zlatan.

I am not a team player, including my inadequacies as a parent.

Libertarians typically argue that particular obligations, at least under normal circumstances, must be created by consent; they cannot be unilaterally imposed by others.

It's a cold world out there, and this world will pass you by if you give another man anything over yourself.

The Reformation meant more than just a change in humanity's relationship with God. By eliminating the confessional, it warned people that henceforth they would have to walk on their own two feet and would have to take responsibility for the consequences of their own decisions.

You should be allowed to do whatever you want with your own person and property, as long as you don't physically harm the person or property of a nonconsenting other.

Do.As.Thou.Wilt.

He knows no physics or engineering to make the world real to him… no paintings to show him how others have enjoyed it… no music except television jingles… no history except tales from a desperate mother… no friends to give him a joke or make him know himself more moderately. He's a modern citizen for whom society doesn't exist.

Modernity has invented the loser.

The notion of private ideas had no ground in [prehistoric] emotional experience.... The notion of a private interior in which the subject can close the door behind it, reflect upon and express itself was unknown before the early individualistic turn in antiquity; its propagandists were the men known as sages or philosophers.... who first gave the motif that true thought was only possible as independent thought, as thinking differently from the stupid masses....

the Renaissance can be seen as the rediscovery of the individual, as superseding the medieval religious view of man as a corrupt, sinful and helpless creature.