Quotes About Individualism

If in previous decades large historic events drew people together and oriented them toward collective action, the recent double trend toward greater choice but less security leads the young to see their lives in more individual terms. Big events collectivize. Little events atomize.

In the world today, we humans have become more self-absorbed, more tribal and tenacious in holding on to our narrow agendas; we have become consumed by the barrage of information inundating us; we are even more fickle when it comes to leaders.

Give these Indians little farms, survey them, let them put fences around them, let them have their own horses, cows, sheep, things that they can call their own, and it will do away with tribal Indians.

From my tribe I take nothing, I am the maker of my own fortune.

There are strengths in Islamic tradition. Islam actually, as a monotheistic religion, which defined man as a responsible agent by itself, created the idea of the individual in the Middle East and saved it from the communitarianism, the collectivism of the tribe.

I didn't come from a very rigid background, where there's a clan or a tribe or a religion.

As our politics have become more polarized, the essential loyalties shift from ideas to parties to tribes to individuals. Nothing else ultimately matters.

The left takes its vision seriously - more seriously than it takes the rights of other people. They want to be our shepherds. But that requires us to be sheep.

What if I don't want a leader? Where does that vote go? I do good on my own. I don't want to be led.

There are things in American culture that want to wipe the class distinction. Blue jeans. Ready-made clothes. Coca-Cola.

Other people can talk about how to expand the destiny of mankind. I just want to talk about how to fix a motorcycle. I think that what I have to say has more lasting value.

I'm tired of doing what I don't want to do to live the way I don't want to live.

I have a natural right to do whatever I want with my body as long as it doesn't affect anybody else or any other property.

Why should I limit myself to only one woman when I can have as many women as I want?

I do not read newspapers. I do not watch television. I am not interested in current events, although I will occasionally discuss them if other people want to discuss them.

I don't turn to anyone for advice. I do what I want.

I don't have no friends. I don't want no friends. That's how I feel.

Government is a parasite-a cancer that by nature tries to spread deeper into society. Those who want to run others' lives won't give up and start minding their own business.

A true fascist is anyone who wants to take away my air conditioning or force me to ride a bike.

I still say I can do whatever I want as long as I'm not hurting anybody else. I don't understand why more people aren't like that.

Well, I'm kinda like George Carlin. I think that there ought to be a time where everybody should have all the drugs they want and there'd be nobody in charge, sort of like... now!

La razón es una facultad del individuo, y el respeto por la razón y el individualismo se desarrollaron a la par durante la Ilustración.

La militancia de la Ilustración por la razón y por el individualismo se presentó a los primeros pensadores de la Contrailustración como el fantasma de un futuro sin dios, sin espíritu, sin pasión y sin moral.

Thoreau was our suburban coyote [Edward Abbey].