Quotes About Individualism

When security comes, every man for himself

Man can will nothing unless he has first understood that he must count on no one but himself.

Every man for himself, and the Devil take the hindmost.

It is not truth, justice, liberty, that men seek; they seek only themselves. - And oh, that they knew how to seek themselves aright!

This is America. People do whatever the fuck they feel like doing, you got a problem with that? Because they have a right to. And because they have guns and no one can fucking stop them. As a result, this country has one of the worst economies in the world.

I'd rather stub out cigarettes on my tongue than go shopping.

is America. People do whatever the fuck they feel like doing, you got a problem with that? Because they have a right to. And because they have guns and no one can fucking stop them. As a result, this country has one of the worst economies in the world.

scattering of schizophrenic first worlders who have long ago burned their brains to ash in the radiant heat of their own imaginings.

His baseline attitude toward other humans was that they could all just go fuck themselves and that he was not going to expend any effort whatsoever getting them to change the way they thought.

Everybody is doing everything for themselves…. When you understand that this is true even about dying, you will never fear dying again.

There is a vitality here of people, pursuing their own lives, unburdened by government interference. The price of nearly absolute freedom is borderline anarchy." "A little law and order wouldn't hurt." "Whose law? Whose order? Fascists and Communists have in common the desire to get everyone into lockstep. I don't want to get into lockstep.

I don't pay much attention to career or what other people think. I've always been quite arrogant.

Liberty in Islam is the liberty to be a Muslim, democracy likewise, individualism likewise.

My generation were all careerists.

Like most people of my generation, I fell in love with the philosophy of existentialism.

The generation who will watch 'Not Safe For Work', my generation, don't care who plays a part.

I have never given adoration to any body except myself.

The self-made man that some people believe is a myth? It could be, because you do it on the backs of other people.

We have a sense that we should be like the mythical cowboy... able to take on and conquer anything and live in the world without the need for other people.

I know of no better name than Anarchism.

I don't want to live in a nanny state where people are telling me where I can go and what I can do.

You know, I'm a really individualistic person. I'm extremely narcissistic and egocentric, too. So I have one life, and I have to live it the way I want.

I think that most people are natural libertarians.

Marx illuminated these contradictions within capitalism. He understood that the idea of capitalism—free trade, free markets, individualism, innovation, self-development—works only in the utopian mind of a true believer such as Alan Greenspan, never in reality. The hoarding of wealth by a tiny capitalist elite, Marx foresaw, along with the driving down of wages of workers, leaves populations unable to buy the products capitalism produces.