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Quotes About Individualism

It is no longer possible to escape men. Farewell to the monsters, farewell to the saints. Farewell to pride. All that is left is men.
~ Jean-Paul Sartre
The plight of modern man is that he is condemmed to be free.
~ Jean-Paul Sartre
There's no one more obnoxious and self-righteous than the self-made man. And no one more admirable.
~ Joe R. Lansdale
Man is emphatically self-made.
~ John Henry Newman
Praie and shifte eche one for him selfe, as he can.Euery man for him selfe, and god for us all.
~ John Heywood
Every man can educate himself. It's shameful to put one's mind into the hands of those whom you wouldn't entrust with your money. Dare to think for yourself.
~ Voltaire
Whoever claims the right to redistribute the wealth produced by others is claiming the right to treat human beings as chattel.
~ Ayn Rand
Wealth is the product of man's capacity to think.
~ Ayn Rand
Sell your soul to yourself. You'll make more money.
~ Marilyn Manson
Whenever destroyers appear among men, they start by destroying money, for money is men's protection, and the base of a moral existence.
~ Ayn Rand
He had never been a social man. He had shunned causes with contempt and disgust. They were for pig-simple suckers and people with too much time and money on their hands
~ Stephen King, The Running Man
Every family should have the right to spend their money, after tax, as they wish, and not as the government dictates. Let us extend choice, extend the will to choose and the chance to choose.
~ Margaret Thatcher
I shun father and mother and wife and brother, when my genius calls me.
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
Each is responsible for his own actions.
~ H. L. Hunt
Coaches are okay, I guess, but I prefer to do things my own way.
~ Jack Foster
When I was a kid growing up in the '60s, music was an outlet for enlightenment, frustration, rebellion. It was more about individualism. Today it's just like a big business.
~ Joey Ramone
The hippies wanted peace and love. We wanted Ferraris, blondes and switchblades.
~ Alice Cooper
Our world has become dehumanized. Man feels himself isolated in the cosmos, because he is no longer involved in nature.
~ Carl Jung
Individualism regards man-every man-as an independent, sovereign entity who possesses an inalienable right to his own life, a right derived from his nature as a rational being.
~ Ayn Rand
This sort of people are so taken up with their theories about the rights of man that they have totally forgotten his nature.
~ Edmund Burke
Man was not intended by nature to live in communities and be civilized.
~ Epicurus
Some critics accuse capitalism of being a selfish system, but the selfishness is not in capitalism - it is in human nature.
~ Dinesh D'Souza
Communism is in conflict with human nature.
~ Ernest Renan
It would be against all nature for all the Negroes to be either at the bottom, top, or in between. We will go where the internal drive carries us like everybody else. It is up to the individual.
~ Zora Neale Hurston