Quotes About Individualism

A Republican is a man who wants you to go t'church every Sunday. A Democrat says if a man wants to have a glass of beer, he can have it.

I've always had a massive fascination with the modern day cowboys. Modern day outlaws or going against the system, and that's always been very intriguing to me.

I have always moved by intuition alone. I have no system, literary or political. I have no guiding political idea.

I didn't wear a leather jacket, man. I didn't grow up in the '50s.

I've always said that, growing up in postwar Japan, I never felt any connection to my work through those experiences. The work I do really comes from inside myself. For me, being born in Japan was an accident.

In Jefferson's mind democracy was tantamount to extreme individualism.

Michael Johnson doesn't pay my bills or sign my cheques. So I don't really care what he has to say.

Boris Johnson has only ever cared about Boris Johnson.

If you look at my history, my history is that of forming bands rather than joining them.

Os economistas baseiam toda uma teoria de comportamento social nesta premissa individualista. A teoria económica da ação coletiva defende que os indivíduos se agregam em grupos sobretudo como um meio de maximizar os seus próprios interesses individuais e não por qualquer motivo de sociabilidade natural.

the concept of "amoral familism," whose code he describes as "Maximize the material, short-run advantage of the nuclear family; assume that all others will do likewise." Cooperation

the promotion of self-esteem enabled not human potential but a crippling narcissism, indeed, a narcissism that he felt had come to characterize American society as a whole.

Liberal individualism does not preclude or deny human sociability; it simply means that most social engagements in a liberal society will ideally be voluntary. You can join with other people, but what groups you join are, to the maximum extent possible, a matter of personal choice.

an autonomous self that has been detached from all prior loyalties and commitments "is not to conceive of an ideally free and rational agent, but to imagine a person wholly without character, without moral depth":

Liberalism is Rationalism in politics.

The 19th century was the age of Individualism the 20th and 21st are the ages of Socialism.

Y en la fornicación, que es un bien general, debe haber democracia libre, porque si no… va a haber que hacerlo por correspondencia…

Nowadays the rights of one scumbag are considered far more important than the collective right of 29 others to be taught without being distracted.

Since Luther we have been living in a centrifugal movement, in a wild individualism where all ties of love and affection have been loosened, and now that the centripetal movement

Life always rides in strength to victory, not through internationalism... but only through the direct responsibility of the individual.

Drop out of school before your mind rots from exposure to our mediocre educational system. Forget about the Senior Prom and go to the library and educate yourself if you've got any guts. Some of you like Pep rallies and plastic robots who tell you what to read.

Drop out of school before your mind rots from exposure to our mediocre educational system. Forget about the Senior Prom and go to the library and educate yourself if you've got any guts. Some of you like Pep rallies and plastic robots who tell you what to read.

Communism doesn't work because people like to own stuff.

Ayn Rand, the Russian-American novelist and would-be philosopher, needed such boring heavy tomes full of bloodless characters to make her case. Her main point was that we are unalloyed individualists, but she had to work hard to convince us, because deep down everyone knows that this is not who or what we are. Rather than a description of our species, Rand offered a counterintuitive ideological construct.