Quotes About Individualism

Certainly, I don't believe in rebellion for its own sake. But I think if you strive to do something in an individualistic way, you just become a rebel by definition.

I was born in Indiana and raised in Oregon and there's a strong sense of individualism, particularly in Oregon. And my mom is an artist, so there was always a lot of emphasis placed on expression.

Particularly with middle-class people, self-absorption is a struggle.

The discussion of ideas as opposed to the American narcissistic obsession with what's going on with the self, that's the general thing people are talking about.

In America, as opposed to the old country, success was based on merit.

Democracy is the form of government that gives every man the right to be his own oppressor.

If you're going to have a free economy, one in which the ordinary citizen can dispose of his own income, you're going to have people who dispose of it in an anti-social way.

I don't believe in organised happiness.

I am certainly an ought and not a must.

Anarchists believe we can run our lives without the government.

I think the American people have become more reliant upon government and less reliant upon themselves and that they now tend to put security ahead of freedom, but I think freedom is the most important aspect of our lives.

Coming out of college, back to New York, where I didn't really know that many people, I thought our world was very atomized.

This American system of ours, call it Americanism, call it capitalism, call it what you will, gives each and every one of us a great opportunity if we only seize it with both hands and make the most of it.

No man has any natural authority over his fellow men.

Libertarians argue that no normal adult has the right to impose choices on other normal adults, except in abnormal circumstances, such as when one person finds another unconscious and administers medical assistance or calls an ambulance.

We need to be responsible for ourselves; we must create our own republics. Today we hand over our responsibility to the boss, to the company, to government, and then blame them when everything goes wrong.

If man can't piss in his own front yard, then he's living too close to town!

The Me Decade and the Third Great Awakening

The basic problem is that most Western countries have privatised the next generation. Having children tends to be regarded as a personal choice rather than a social good.

You're not playing the game,' Mary Landon said. 'I told you about me. You're just telling me about your family.' The statement surprised Chee. One defined himself by his family. How else? And then it occurred to him that white people didn't. They identified themselves by what they had done as individuals.

A modern person has no energy to love any other time than his own.

Rules and school are tools for fools! I don't give two mules for rules.

Murray Rothbard.

We have a strong and natural tendency to look out for ourselves before others, even when those others are part of our families and our teams.