Quotes About Individualism

Cuando Martín declaró en el juicio que la única buena costumbre que él defendía era la de leer y que el resto era asunto de cada uno, el juez añadió otros diez años de condena a los no sé cuanto que ya le habían caído.

No more doing things for nothing, Fernandito. Welcome to capitalism.' 'Don't they say that's really bad?' 'Worse. And you're going to love it.

John was a man of few words and many grunts and one of his grunts could express a volume. He had a variety of them which he adapted as the situation arose. But they all seemed to express his view on life, the principle of which was, 'you leave me be, and I'll leave you be';

One of the most wonderful, and the most appalling, things about Eric loving me was that he didn't give a shit about anyone else.

At the time, I thought if Stan Davis wanted to live on Green Valley Road, or in the Hundred-Acre Wood, that was his right as an American

I don't do meetings.

I've never been much for becoming a member of a group.

In the U.S. we have the mentality that you can make it on your own.

What I'm trying to do is get this message out about self-empowerment, entrepreneurial spirit and true Americanism - the way we were when we changed the world, when Edison was alone, failing his 2,000th time on the lightbulb.

I call myself a liberal - a classical liberal as in John Stuart Mill.

I took the obligatory economics classes in school, but I've long been a fan of the Milton Friedman philosophy and its libertarian bent: One must be free to do what one wants to do, as long as you don't harm another. This is the seminal treatise on free-market economics.

Majorities and minorities cannot rightfully be taken at all into account in deciding questions of justice.

We let individualism prevail in the twentieth century, and frankly, we have made a mess of it. We must begin anew for the twenty-first century; we need a new, different direction. We can no longer continue destroying ourselves and the planet we live on. With determination we can abandon the cult of individualism and the self, and act and live in harmony, in the spirit of interbeing.

Io non ho mai avuto un padre e non ho mai avuto una madre, ma ho avuto sempre il mio Montaigne.

Tot ce-i la mod? mi-a repugnat întodeauna.Probabil c? suf?r de ceea ce am numit egoism artistic,în privinÅ£a artei vreau totul numai pt mine,vreau s?-l am singur pe Schopenhauer al meu,pe Pascal al meu,pe Novalis al meu ÅŸi pe mult iubitul meu Gogol,vreau s? posed numai eu singur aceste produse de art?,aceste agresiuni artistice geniale,vreau s?-i am eu singur pe Michelangelo,Renoir,Goya.

Hang it, I am not going to feel responsible for my deeds and passions if there's nobody to be responsible to; and if I were you, my dear, I wouldn't either.

I am not a Federalist because I never submitted the whole system of my opinions to the creed of any party of men whatever....Such an addiction is the last degradation of a free and moral agent. If I could not go to heaven but with a party, I would not go there at all.

we follow nothing but our natures, our own philosophies, our own level of ethics, we will end up in hell.

True solitude is the home of the person, false solitude the refuge of the individualist.

I do not believe in the creed professed by the Jewish church, by the Roman church, by the Greek church, by the Turkish church, by the Protestant church, nor by any church that I know of. My own mind is my own church . All national institutions of churches, whether Jewish, Christian, or Turkish, appear to me no other than human inventions set up to terrify and enslave mankind, and monopolize power and profit.

My own mind is my own church.

Pointsman is finding it much easier to of late to slip into a l'etat c'est moi frame of mind--who else is doing anything?

Hilary Clinton said you know, it takes a village to raise a child and somebody said it takes a village idiot to believe that … it is part of the whole thing of third parties wanting to make decisions for which they pay no price for when they're wrong.

Clearly, only very unequal intellectual and moral standing could justify having equality imposed, whether the people want it or not, as Dworkin suggests, and only very unequal power would make it possible.