Quotes About Individualism

I come from what they call the land of nowhere. I'm from the suburb. It's extremely atomizing.

Boom, J. (2004). Individualism and collectivism: A dynamic systems interpretation of Piaget's interactionism. In J. I. Carpendale & U. Müller (Eds.), Social interaction and the development of knowledge: Critical evaluation of Piaget's contribution (pp. 67–85). Mahwah, NJ: Erlbaum.

Our society is not a community, but merely a collection of isolated family units.

It is quite impossible to understand,' I commented afterwards, 'how we can be such strong individualists, so insistent on the rights and claims of every human soul, and yet at the same time countenance (and if we are English, even take quite calmly) this wholesale murder, which if it were applied to animals or birds or indeed anything except men would fill us with a sickness and repulsion greater than we could endure.

Carlin (George) 'I have certain rules I live by. My first rule: I don't believe anything the Government tells me. Nothing. Zero.

Americans used to be 'citizens.' Now we are 'consumers.

The beauty of America is people can do what they like.

For me, Romanticism is the most recent and the most current expression of beauty.

I don't think Kobe is the best player. I'm the best player.

...the best is a matter of standards—and I set my own standards.

It's a law of survival, isn't it?—to seek the best. I didn't come for your sake. I came for mine.

Enlightenment values of individual freedom are manifested best in individual acts of criticism and defiance.

I don't know how people get so anti-something. Just mind your own business, take care of your own affairs, and don't worry about other people so much.

Entrepreneurship is the last refuge of the trouble making individual.

If everybody minded their own business... the world would go round a deal faster than it does.

Competition exists to choose who gets the prize when the prize can't be shared.

I'm a registered Republican and consider socialism a violation of the American principle that you shouldn't stick your nose in other people's business except to make a buck.

I preume there are far too many abortions performed in this country. And I also believe that at the end of the day, as much as I might disapprove, none of them are really any of my business.

Mass transportation is doomed to failure in North America because a person's car is the only place where he can be alone and think.

Ai xu?ng h?a ng?c ??u có th? hát lên: Tôi Ä'ã s?ng theo ý tôi.

But it does imply that the search for scapegoats—a particularly alluring pastime in individualistic cultures such as ours in the United States—is a blind alley.

According to Friedrich Nietzsche, Zarathustra was the source of the 'profoundest error in human history – namely the invention of morality'.

SADE Desprezo essas manifestações da masa que giram em círculo vicioso (...) Desprezo todas essas boas intenções que se perdem nas vielas desprezo todos os sacrifícios feitos por alguma coisa Só acredito em mim mesmo.

We live in a society where detachment is almost essential.