Quotes About Individualism

Bacteria is the only culture some people have.

I'm not choosing anybody but myself.' Jane was sick of men thinking they could give her ultimatums.

No one understood striving for second place. It was un-American. "She just wanted peace

Hitherto men have always formed wrong ideas about themselves, about what they are and what they ought to be. They have arranged their relations according to their ideas of God, of normal man, etc. The products of their brains have got out of their hands. They, the creators, have bowed down before their creations.

Segui il tuo corso, e lascia dir le genti.

has left remaining no other nexus between man and man than naked self-interest

What is certain is that I myself am not a Marxist

Wie niet liever met eigen krachten een eigen wereld bouwt, de schepper van een wereld is, dan eeuwig in zijn eigen schulp te blijven, die is door de geest met een banvloek getroffen, met een interdict, maar in omgekeerde betekenis: hij is verjaagd uit het heiligdom van de geest, verstoken van de eeuwige luxe van de geest, en gedoemd om wiegeliedjes te zingen over zijn eigen privé-gelukzaligheid en daar 's nachts van zichzelf te dromen.

Luke mentioned that a lot of people go to the Kumbh Mela festival to 'find themselves'. That's a saying I've never understood. If I did want to find myself, I don't think I'd find me at a festival with 20 million other people. I hate crowds. The

Individuals have conquered themselves. Nations and large bodies of men, never.

A self-made man may prefer a self-made name.

Man exists for his own sake and not to add a laborer to the State.

Everyone asks for freedom for himself, The man free love, the businessman free trade, The writer and talker free speech and free press.

A man--be the heavens ever praised!--is sufficient for himself.

No man is bound by the words themselves, either to kill himselfe, or any other man.

It must not be forgotten that it is especially dangerous to enslave men in the minor details of life.

I am not morally obligated to care more for a man than he cares for himself.

To be free, a man must be free of his brothers. That is freedom. That and nothing else.

...if men are to be ruled, then the enemy is reason.

But what is freedom? Freedom from what? There is nothing to take a man's freedom away from him, save other men. To be free, a man must be free of his brothers. That is freedom. That and nothing else.

And man will go on. Man, not men.

Whenever all men are...hastening to be slaves or tyrants we make Liberalism the prime bogey.

Where there is no law, but every man does what is right in his own eyes, there is the least of real liberty.

Every man may claim the fullest liberty to exercise his faculties compatible with the possession of like liberties by every other man.