Quotes About Individualism

Hell is other people," said the French philosopher Jean-Paul Sartre, and he wasn't even a fat guy.

Delegation is about private ownership of one's work, and in the communist system, there simply was no private ownership.

in the United States, the government doesn't decide what makes a man happy. The government doesn't decide that a couple who worked hard and bought their own home and raised their family would now be happier living somewhere else.

I know thousands of German's who are totally different from me, so we're not alike, we're not the same.

Each man seeks his own interest, not the general interest. Let his own selfish interests be touched, and all concord is at an end.

In America, the stories we tell ourselves and we tell each other in fiction have to do with individualism. Every person here is the center of his or her own story. And our job as people and as characters is to find our own motivations and desires, to overcome conflicts and obstacles toward defining ourselves so that we grow and change.

Once you get on to the racetrack on Sunday and you strap your helmet on and you come down especially toward the end of the race, it's every man for himself. It's me against the world. It's me against everybody else. Sometimes you're against your critics, as well, too.

No one really cares about you but you. They say they do, but everyone in Hollywood is a heat-seeking missile, and it's easy to go after the cute girl or guy that's new to town.

We lost our minds in the '80s and '90s; we really as a society just felt that everyone could only care about themselves. There was no responsibility to discuss what's going on in your town, your state, your nation. And it was a blast, it was really fun, but it doesn't work.

People are not considerate of others. They tend not to consider themselves as all living together, but see themselves only as individuals.

Behold the crucifix; what does it symbolize? Pallid incompetence hanging on a tree.

It was the greatest sensation of existence: not to trust but to know.

I don't hire a lot of number-crunchers, and I don't trust fancy marketing surveys. I do my own surveys and draw my own conclusions.

Never trust anyone who calls himself a libertarian socialist. They're bound to be deeply confused, at best.

One God, one market, one truth, one consumer.

Men are selfish and don't think about anything else but them self." pg. 45

They are learning a way of feeling connected in which they have permission to think only of themselves.

Americans were once inner-directed. Now they had become other-directed, seeking identity in external validation.

Fieldworkers must build a community of sentiment, with local and long-distance members, that opposes the competitive individualism of academia. The lone scholar is a sociological impossibility. Our "individual" works rely on language, literatures, and feedback from colleagues (Becker, 1986).

Leading the Jewish people is not easy-we are a divided, obstinate, highly individualistic people who have cultivated faith, sharp-wittedness and polemics to a very high level.

Contemporary culture is not very good on responsibility.

Bums panhandled instead of getting a job. People dropped their trash on the sidewalk or tossed it from their car windows. All these actions said the same thing: my shit is more important than yours. The world was a self-centered place and he hated it for it.

It is the lone worker who makes the first advance in a subject: the details may be worked out by a team, but the prime idea is due to the enterprise, thought and perception of an individual.

Do what thy manhood bids thee do, from none but self expect applause; He noblest lives and noblest dies who makes and keeps his self-made laws. All other Life is living Death, a world where none but Phantoms dwell, A breath, a wind, a sound, a voice, a tinkling of the camel-bell.