Quotes About Individualism

Self improvement is masturbation...

That's the American Dream: to make your life into something you can sell.

Just each of us being me, me, me first. The murderer, the victim, the witness each of us thinks our role is the lead. Probably that goes for anybody in the world.

Recycling and speed limits are bullshit. They're like someone who quits smoking on his deathbed.

Burn the Louvre, and wipe your ass with the Mona Lisa. This way at least, God would know our names.

Making all effort resist absorption into American cult of the individual, traditional method entrenched oligarchy so maintain own power: Fracture citizen isolated into different religion, different race, different family. Label as rich cultural diversity. Cleave as unique until each citizen stand alone. Until each vote invested no value. Single citizen celebrated as special-in actual, remaining no power.

It's the martyrdom of Saint Me.

Civilization is a condition which unsocial misfits impose on the rest of popular, easygoing, family-oriented humanity.

My point is, that if I'm honest, my life is all about me.

Zivilisation ist ein Zustand, den ungesellige Eigenbrötler dem Rest der unbeschwerten, familienorientierten Menschheit auferlegen.

Chuck Palahniuk

Now she thinks to go at this all by herself: a rogue element.

That's humanity. That's people. I got mine, you can't have any of it, and if you even look at me sideways I'll put a bullet in you.

You need to see everything else—everyone else—as expendable, as less than yourself.

No, obviously what strength was all along was the ability to say "Fuck off" to the lot of it, to turn your back on all the suffering and contemplate, unmolested, your own desires above all.

in the days when the world begins to bleach and shrivel, and the sun is blotched with death. Socialist and Individualist, they'll all be a little dirt lodged deep in the granite wrinkles of the globe's countenance.

I've read Joyce and Sartre and Beckett and the rest, and every atom in me rejects what they say. They strike me as liars and fools. I don't think they're dishonest so much as hopelessly tired and defeated.

I am an aristocrat, Virginian John Randolph would explain decades after the American Revolution. I love liberty; I hate equality.

No instinct tells him what he has to do, and no tradition tells him what he ought to do; sometimes he does not even know what he wishes to do. Instead, he either wishes to do what other people do (conformism) or he does what other people wish him to do (totalitarianism).

he either wishes to do what other people do (conformism) or he does what other people wish him to do (totalitarianism).

Instead, he either wishes to do what other people do (conformism) or he does what other people wish him to do (totalitarianism).

Instead, either he wishes to do what other people do (conformism), or he does what other people wish him to do (totalitarianism).

There is nothing in the world that I loathe more than group activity, that communal bath where the hairy and slippery mix in a multiplication of mediocrity.

Nichts auf der Welt verabscheue ich mehr als kollektive Aktivität, diese öffentliche Badeanstalt, wo sich die Behaarten und die Glitschigen zu einer Multiplizierung der Mittelmäßigkeit treffen.