Quotes About Individualism

I think every single person perceives things differently. We are all singular.

'Atlas Shrugged' shows when you have a singular vision of something and how quickly you can become attune to that vision and devalue others quickly based on their principles and ideologies.

One of the things I admire most about millennials is they celebrate individualism, and their singularity is encouraged. To be different is to be cool as opposed to weird.

I'm fairly skeptical of movements, organizations, and institutions in general.

A free society will abide unofficial, private discrimination, even when that means allowing hate-filled groups to exclude people based on the color of their skin.

Now why, if freedom is striven after for love of the I after all - why not choose the I himself as beginning, middle, and end?

iPod liberalism [is] where we assume that every single Iranian or Chinese who happens to have and love his iPod will also love liberal democracy.

Love of one is a piece of barbarism: for it is practised at the expense of all others. Love of God likewise.

Self worship is different from self love.

I suppose you could say I love outlaw American culture.

I love the American way of life.

The idea of personal space, which seems so natural to us now, was a revelation. People couldn't get enough of it. Soon it wasn't merely sufficient to live apart from one's inferiors; one had to have time apart from one's equals, too.

The Power of One is a slogan--not a goal.

I wonder if you can refuse to inherit the world.

You call yourself what you want to call yourself. This is the land of the free

You're born with the wrong names, wrong parents. I mean, that happens. You call yourself what you want to call yourself. This is the land of the free.

Every herd is a refuge for giftlessness, whether it's a faith in Soloviev, or Kant, or Marx. Only the solitary seek the truth, and they break with all those who don't love it sufficiently.

The greatest thing India could do for its people was to keep the playing field as level as possible and work tirelessly to see to it that everyone was following the rules. After that, it was up to the individual to succeed based on their talent and hard work.

I hated the idea of serving men in any way.

I beamed benevolently at them over my third atheistic cup of coffee and ate my existentialist egg;

I find it hard to follow a party line. I'm too much of a populist -- which is why I'm against hunting but pro hanging. I find it quite hard to find like-minded souls.

From his loftiest pulpit the modern clerc assures man that he is great in proportion as he is practical.

Jokingly, I once said that beside 'Evolians' [...] we now also have 'Evolomaniacs'. Similar phenomena are inevitable. Interview 6 - 1972

The acceleration that characterizes all falling bodies causes the phase of individualism and rationalism to be overcome and to be followed by the emergence of irrational and elemental forces characterized by mystical overtones. It is here that we encounter further developments in the well-known process of regression. In the domain of culture this regression is accompanied by an upheaval that has been characterized with the expression "treason of the clerics.