Quotes About Individualism

No man can have a right to impose an unchosen obligation , an unrewarded duty or an involuntary servitude on another man. There can be no such thing as " the right to enslave .

A man who seeks escape from the responsibility of supporting his life by his own thought and effort, and wishes to survive by conquering, ruling and exploiting others, is NOT an Individualist.

The moral cannibalism of all hedonist and altruist doctrines lies in the premise that the happiness of one man necessitates the injury of another.

The men who attempt to survive, not by means of reason, but by means of force, are attempting to survive by the method of animals.

A viler evil than to murder a man, is to sell him suicide as an act of virtue.

Remember that rights are moral principles which define and protect a man's freedom of action, but impose no obligations on other men.

The attack on "selfishness" is an attack on man's self-esteem; to surrender one, is to surrender the other.

According to your belief [Christian clergy], my kind of man — secular, prideful, agnostic and all the rest of it — is among the damned. I'm on my own. You've got your God.

In their religion they are so uneven, That each man goes his own byway to heaven.

I am not what is called a civilized man, professor. I have done with society for reasons that seem good to me. Therefore I do not obey its laws.

No man is competent to manage another.

Whatever men live for, today most live only because of the market order.

Man does not strive for happiness; only the Englishman does that.

In his lonely solitude, the solitary man feeds upon himself; in the thronging multitude, the many feed upon him. Now choose.

Nobody is in a position to decree what should make a fellow man happier.

I have discovered that man is superior to the system he propounds.

I think of the Sixties as being every man for himself.

America is the only place where man is full-grown!

No society can ever be so large as one man.

It should be remembered that men of courage, integrity, and principle can stand up to Big Brother and resist the headlong march into economic tyranny.

Men make history. History does not make the man.

But perhaps a man is not required to bury himself.

Ludwig von Mises referred to Ayn Rand as 'the most courageous man in America.' If that doesn't say it all about the economist's man-centric frame of reference, I don't know what does.

I scarcely know a professional man I can like, and certainly not one who has been what the world calls successful, that I should the least wish to resemble.