Quotes About Individualism

My fundamental tenets are concerned with freedom of the individual; the market isn't perfect, but it's the best available way of allocating resources.

The farther a society progresses, the more clearly the individual becomes the antithesis of the group.

Classical liberalism is the idea that individual freedom and limited government are the best way for humans to form a free society.

Affirmative action based on quotas is wrong - wrong because it is antithetical to the genius of the American idea: individual liberty.

We're in a very individual sport, but they like us not to be so individual. They'd rather have you look like every other cookie cutter guy and have you believe that you're replaceable when you're really not.

Art is individualism, and individualism is a disturbing and disintegrating force.

Lots of people say politics is about individualism and egos. I happen to think government is best operated as a team.

I was ready to talk about... and I'm ready to die on the hills of due process, individualism, and free thought.

I've run into certain geniuses of individualism - they are very few and far between - who live their lives completely on their own terms; they are very powerful and have a great amount of happiness. We all should aspire to that.

Individualism is a formidable lie.

Now, there's a desire for order, authority coming from a feeling that society has gone too far to the side of individualism and liberalism.

Frontiersman ideas of individualism stand exposed as we realise just how much our actions impact others.

At the basic consumer level, the profusion of fonts appeals to a culture that celebrates expressive individualism.

I just want to find my individuality.

Fundamentally, American society is composed of individuals who don't go out of their way to do each other favours.

Groups are grammatical fictions; only individuals exist, and each individual is different.

The class barricades have been stormed by the forces of a broad culture, which is made up of clusters of individuals who have decided for themselves what they will be in society.

Man is essentially a selfish creature. The differences in the degree with which this developed are infinite.

By the 1870s, ex-Confederates had taken their support for Western individualism a step further. They insisted the federal government was actively persecuting Western individuals.

I wasn't part of any movement. I was working alone, following my instinct.

My instincts are conservative, but my inclinations are also libertarian.

Since the 70s and the 80s you see the rise of neoliberalism. The central dogma of neoliberalism was that most people are selfish. So, we started designing our institutions around that idea, our schools, our workplaces, our democracies. The government became less and less important.

I love the idea of shifting power away from institutions and toward individual creative people.

I was never good at taking instructions.