Quotes About Individualism

Liberalism is totalitarianism with a human face.

An American is insubmissive, lonely, self-educated, and polite.

This right to life, this right to liberty, and this right to pursue one's happiness is unabashedly individualistic, without in the slightest denying at the same time our thoroughly social nature. It's only that our social relations, while vital to us all, must be chosen -­ that is what makes the crucial difference.

I think every person has their own identity and beauty. Everyone being different is what is really beautiful. If we were all the same, it would be boring.

Millions of people across our great land who want nothing more than to be left alone and pursue their own happiness of believing mean-spirited bullshit. Except society has evolved away from ignorance. And that's where we come in." "How?" "We make being shitty feel good again.

There is no reason why I should call myself a democrat.

I only listen to myself, I hate to say. I don't got time to listen to nobody else. There's a lot of guys out there, but I only listen to myself.

In general, in more collectivist cultures, we see that in group settings, people dampen their emotions but are very expressive when they are at home alone. In more individualistic cultures, such as North America and Europe, it's the opposite - people are more expressive in group settings than when they are by themselves.

I have busted more hippies' noses than all the narcs in the free world.

And what's more I've got no need for anyone to tell me how to do it. I am not interested. You act how you want to and leave me alone to do my own thing.

I read all of Ayn Rand's novels when I was 17.

A lot of young guys nowadays, when you start talking about guys wanting to get paid or what's best for them, they tend to think about themselves.

The nuclear family doesn't work. It's very destructive; it grew out of selfishness.

Look out for Number One. If you don't, no one else will.

We're all lonely, but I'd rather be lonely by myself than with a long list of duties and obligations. I think that's why people kill themselves, really.

But there is no obvious reason for holding that some normal adults are entitled to make choices for other normal adults, as paternalists of both left and right believe.

Democracy, obviously, is something we don't want to give up, but it does create chaos. It means the guy next door can do what he wants, and it creates a collision of thinking. In cities, that means people build whatever they want.

Existentialism is the kind of philosophy that makes for legendary children.

In the beginning the point was not to have a point, to escape the world in which everyone had to have a job, a desk, an office.

The idea of a solitary westernized individual whose faith in God is private is very threatening to you. An atheist who belongs to a community is far easier for you to trust than a solitary man who believes in God. For you, a solitary man is far more wretched and sinful than a nonbeliever.

No man ever climbed to success on another's back.

Americans love to pick up, move on, start over. But instead of being somebody fresh and new, they become somebody lonely and lost, or, far too often these days, they become nobody at all, a machine for satisfying hunger, without loyalty or honor or duty.

Art is the most intense mode of individualism that the world has known.

Other people are quite dreadful. The only possible society is oneself.