Quotes About Individualism

El individualismo se consideraba una forma de demencia

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For some people, success is a zero sum game. They think that if they push other people out of the way, fewer people can compete with them. That's one way of seeing the world. It's dog eat dog. It's, sadly, always going to be there.

Everyone in New York is very self-involved. They're focused on themselves. Like, walking down the street, people are just in their own zone.

The real America that Whitman proclaimed and Thoreau decoded.

Each man must for himself alone decide what is right and what is wrong, which course is patriotic and which isn't. You cannot shirk this and be a man. To decide against your conviction is to be an unqualified and inexcusable traitor, both to yourself and to your country, let men label you as they may.

Nothing is more to me than myself.

Not only England, but every Englishman is an island.

The great are great only because we are on our knees. Let us rise!

There ain't nothing but one thing wrong with every one of us, and that's selfishness.

Modern dancers give a sinister portent about our times. The dancers don't even look at one another. They are just a lot of isolated individuals jiggling in a kind of self-hypnosis and dancing with others only to remind themselves that we are not completely alone in this world.

Even crushed against his brother in the Tube the average Englishman pretends desperately that he is alone.

Turn on, Tune in, Drop out.

I think I'm turning into a libertarian. I'm not part of the gaggle of Hollywood liberals. I gaggle for no one, and I'm not a liberal. I'm libo-conservo-rado-middle-of-the-roado.

I have some help on tweeting.

I think psychology and self-reflection is one of the major catastrophes of the twentieth century.

Sell your clothes and keep your thoughts. God will see that you do not want society.

I'm enough of an anarchist aesthetically, when it comes to art - I want people to be reading my stuff voluntarily. They should be doing it because they want to.

In real life, you care about other people, but at the end of the day you're like, "I'm acting upon whatever it is that I want or need."

The ideal is to create a completely fragmented atomized society where everybody is totally alone, doing nothing but trying to pursue created wants, and the wants are created.

I will never be a leader of men, and neither do I want to be one, and neither do I want to be led. I thought: I want to lead only myself.

The anarch wages his own wars, even when marching in rank and file

To be a mother is a great treasure. Mothers, in their unconditional and sacrificial love for their children, are the antidote to individualism; they are the greatest enemies against war.

After all, you didn't stay what your people were. No, it was what you were yourself that counted - why, that was the very foundation of America, thought Brook.