Quotes About Individualism

I never thrust my nose into other men's porridge. It is no bread and butter of mine; every man for himself, and God for us all.

Men's consciences ought in no sort to be violated, urged, or constrained.

When everyone is somebody, then no one's anybody.

The schizoid man is the natural product of the technological man. It is one way to live and is increasingly utilized and it may explode into violence.

I owe nothing to my brothers, nor do I gather debts from them. I ask none to live for me, nor do I live for any others. I covet no man's soul, nor is my soul theirs to covet.

We follow ideas and not men, and rebel against this habit of embodying a principle in a man.

The American dream is not that every man must be level with every other man. The American dream is that every man must be free to become whatever God intends he should become.

Man needs knowledge in order to survive, and only reason can achieve it; men who reject the responsibility of thought and reason, can exist only as parasites on the thinking of others.

Any alleged 'right' of one man, which necessitates the violation of the rights of another, is not and cannot be a right.

Nobody is equal to anybody. Even the same man is not equal to himself on different days.

Each man does seek his own interest, but, unfortunately, not according to the dictates of reason.

Art is like a shipwreck; it's every man for himself.

Capitalists are no more capable of self-sacrifice than a man is capable of lifting himself up by his own bootstraps.

The cynic says, "One man can't do anything". I say, "Only one man can do anything."

Every man looks out for himself, and he has the happiest life who manages to hoodwink himself best of all.

Every government interference in the economy consists of giving an unearned benefit, extorted by force, to some men at the expense of others.

Men are not against you, they are merely for themselves.

A man's ego is the fountainhead of human progress.

Not stones, nor wood, nor the art of artisans make a state; but where men are who know how to take care of themselves, these are cities and walls.

There's a line in the picture where he snarls, 'Nobody tells me what to do.' That's exactly how I've felt all my life.

The destiny of man is an individualistic destiny.

Every man is free to do that which he wills, provided he infringes not the equal freedom of any other man.

More and more, when faced with the world of men, the only reaction is one of individualism. Man alone is an end unto himself. Everything one tries to do for the common good ends in failure.

As long as men are free to speak, a small, rational minority will always prevail over an irrational majority.