Quotes About Individualism

A man would rather fail according to his own ideas than succeed according to another's.

I have yet to find a man worth his salt in any direction who did not think of himself first and foremost.

Our whole civilization rests on the fact that men have always succeeded in beating off the attack of the re-distributors.

Only the free and personal man is a good citizen (realist), and even with the lack of particular (scholarly, artistic, etc)culture, a tasteful judge (humanist).

I'm a self-made man. Who else would help?

Nobody has ever given a reason why men should be their brother's keepers.

A man of independent judgment is a man of profound self-esteem.

The thoughtful man becomes a hermit in the thoroughfares of the marketplace.

Just as man must have liberty to think and speak, so he must have liberty in food, dress, and marriage, and in every other thing, so long as he does not injure others.

The American's conviction that he must be able to look any man in the eye and tell him to go to hell is the very essence of the free man's way of life.

As I go about I see a lot of "coffin" men. They have room for themselves and nobody else.

We are all equal in the sense that no man must mean - must be - the means for the purposes of another man; but each individual is an end in itself.

Every man is responsible only for his own acts. The sons do not inherit the sins of the fathers. But can we say: that was long ago, they were different?

Men living in democratic times have many passions, but most of their passions either end in the love of riches, or proceed from it.

When women finally get liberated, they'll do the same that men do - dog eat dog - that's what our culture is.

Bacon, Locke, Descartes, Hume, and all the others knew they were giving rights to vulgarity. But in so doing in addition to caring for man's well-being they were providing rights for themselves.

There's no law on the internet. There's no voice of reason. It's every man for himself!

I want to be prepared to claim the greatest virtue of all - that I was a man who made money

The fact that a man has no claim on others ... does not preclude or prohibit good will among men and does not make it immoral to offer or to accept voluntary, non-sacrificial assistance.

One can't love man without hating most of the creatures who pretend to bear his name.

Man cannot demand that others give up their lives to make him happy.

Kant is the most evil man in mankind's history.

This is the age othe common man, they tell us-a title which any man may claim to the extent osuch distinction as he has managed not to achieve.

Capitalism and altruism are incompatible; they are philosophical opposites; they cannot co-exist in the same man or in the same society.