Quotes About Individualism

The man is distinguished from the youth by the fact that he takes the world as it is, instead of everywhere fancying it amiss and wanting to improve it, i.e. model it after his ideal; in him the view that one must deal with the world according to his interest, not according to his ideals, becomes confirmed.

That's the trick of free market economic theory: it doesn't just ask you to only be selfish and not care about others. It tells you that by being selfish, you are helping others. And, in fact, by trying to directly help others, you will hurt them.

There are two kinds of people in this world. 'I' people and 'we' people. I've always tried to be a 'we' person.

If I hear someone say something, and they're 100 per cent about it, then it's almost inevitable that I'll take the opposite view. I guess I feel at odds with things like society. Absolutism is always a trigger for me.

Trigger warnings are part of the West's debauchery of self-indulgent victimhood.

I think it's wonderful that people in pickup trucks are buying two flats of dog food and a copy of 'Bastard.' I want my view of the world to be right up there next to gallon boxes of Tide.

Is it really true that political self-interest is nobler somehow than economic self-interest?

Of course, Oliver Stone is not Donald Trump. But he shares with him a certain way of seeing the world and being in the world - and the luxury of persisting in this way of being, and even making a spectacle of it.

Hillary Clinton is about 'we.' Donald Trump is about 'me.'

For all the huffing and blowing we get about rugged individualism, the American spirit and the American experiment always have had at their heart the notion that the government is all of us and that, therefore, the government may keep things in trust for all of us.

I mean, I've always been a libertarian. Leave everybody alone. Let everybody else do what they want. Just stay out of everybody else's hair.

Simply because the nanny-state wants to hug you doesn't mean it's not tyrannical if you don't want to be hugged.

If it's freedom you want, come to Texas. No one there tells you what to do and how you have to do it.

It takes a kind of shabby arrogance to survive in our time, and a fairly romantic nature to want to.

I think still it is very fine not to want children. There are far too many people in the world. It is my contribution to ecology.

People do whatever they want to do, y'know.

I am not an exponent of expressionism. I don't know exactly what that means, but I don't like the sound of it. I dislike cults and isms. I want to paint in terms of my own thinking and feeling.

With my meager knowledge of my own religion I do not want to belong to any religious body

Living in New York City gives people real incentives to want things that nobody else wants.

Being a conservative also used to involve the concept of people being free to do whatever they want to do, as long as it doesn't hurt somebody else. Conservatives used to be very libertarian.

Women want to serve, and this is where their happiness lies: but the free spirit does not want to be served, and this is where hishappiness lies.

There is no God, there is only what you want.

Why should I want what's good for me?' Beatrice asked him, smiling. 'Is that what you want for yourself - only what's good for you?

I love going one-on-one with someone. That's what I do. I've never lost. It's a whole different game, just to have them right in front of you and be able to do whatever you want.