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Quotes About Individualism

When Nietszche says, "A new commandment I give to you, be hard" he is really saying, "A new commandment I give to you, be dead." Sensibility is the definition oflife.
~ G.K. Chesterton, Heretics
It's all about you, isn't it?
~ Anthony T. Hincks
If there were a party of those who aren't sure they're right, I'd belong t
~ Albert Camus
Walt Whitman, Leaves of Grass
~ Resist much, obey little.
Any man who thinks he can be happy and prosperous by letting the government take care of him better take a closer look at the American Indian.
~ Henry Ford
The government cannot love you, and any politics that works on a different assumption is destined for no good.
~ Jonah Goldberg
And so it is in politics, dear brother, Each for himself alone, there is no other.
~ Geoffrey Chaucer
The principle that the end justifies the means is in individualist ethics regarded as the denial of all morals. In collectivist ethics it becomes necessarily the supreme rule.
~ Friedrich A. Hayek
Do what thou wilt shall be the whole of the law.
~ Aleister Crowley
I don't watch the news, I don't care about politics, I don't care about other sports.
~ Conor McGregor
The doer and the thinker, no allowances for the other, as the failing light illuminates the mercenaries creed.
~ Jethro Tull
Libertarianism is a theory of politics that is so compelling that once you have absorbed it, it becomes the lens through which you end up understanding all economic and political events.
~ Llewellyn Rockwell
You either get free stuff or you get freedom. You cannot have both and you need to make a choice.
~ Sarah Palin
Individualism is a denial that life has any meaning except the gratification of the ego; in politics it must end in anarchy. It is not possible for one man to be both Christian and Individualist.
~ Russell Kirk
When it becomes dominated by a collectivist creed, democracy will inevitably destroy itself.
~ Friedrich August von Hayek
I am a Tory anarchist. I should like everyone to go about doing just as he pleased - short of altering any of the things to which I have grown accustomed.
~ Max Beerbohm
I do not give a damn about the dead. They died for the [Communist] Party and the Party can decide what it wants. I practice a live man's politics, for the living.
~ Jean-Paul Sartre
Don't follow leaders, watch your parkin' meters.
~ Bob Dylan
I am interested in politics only in order to secure and protect freedom.
~ Ayn Rand
As for my personal politics, some people seem to think I'm some kind of archlibertarian, a hyper-conservative.
~ Edward Snowden
The solution to this problem [welfare-statism] must take a positive form: the restoration of a faith in what free men can accomplish.
~ Leonard Read
If you rely on others to accomplish something in life, you'll end up accomplishing nothing.
~ Abdulazeez Henry Musa
This whole beautiful world will end for you the day you die, then why to bother for others, stay selfish stay happy.
~ Aananda Karna
My power is my property. My power gives me property. My power am I myself, and through it am I my property.
~ Max Stirner