Quotes About Individualism

Isn't it true, Mr. Tagomi said, that no man should be the instrument for another's needs? He leaned forward urgently. Please give me your neutral Scandinavian opinion.

He does not glorify the state at the expense of the individual but, to the contrary, encourages entrepreneurial individualism and a free enterprise system unencumbered by interference from the federal government. Where is the fascist statism? Where is the fascist thuggery?

Why worship God when you can worship yourself? says the "celebrity.

Neoliberalism is in the first instance a theory of political economic practices that proposes that human well-being can best be advanced by liberating individual entrepreneurial freedoms and skills within an institutional framework characterized by strong private property rights, free markets, and free trade.

Thatcher forged consent through the cultivation of a middle class that relished the joys of home ownership, private property, individualism, and the liberation of entrepreneurial opportunities.

The call to level the playing field, pushed to its logical conclusion, is a call for the systematic subversion of American individualism and democracy. It is the kitsch marxism of our time.

Her philosophy, Objectivism, advocates reason, individualism, and personal happiness. Conservatives are more likely to favor faith, tradition, and duty as core values. Politically, Objectivism is classically liberal or libertarian. It expresses a worldview associated with the Enlightenment. Ayn Rand fundamentally rejected the conservative-liberal distinction in culture.

I mean, certainly, not everyone sucks in the same way, and not everyone sucks equally, but everyone sucks at least a little.

It is more frightening but it is not less productive to go your own way, to form your own theatre company, to write and stage your own plays, to make your own films. You have an enormously greater chance of eventually presenting yourself to, and eventually appealing to, an audience by striking out on your own, by making your own plays and films, than by submitting to the industrial model of the school and studio.

No me creo a los que fingen interesarse por ellos. Aquí cada uno va a la suya. Lo más decente es decir la verdad.

It was typical of the American to identify the one unfinished strand.

That's the way people were. Nobody believed in the things you believed but yourself, nobody believed that even you were really sincere about it, people believed whatever was good business for them at the time. Nobody believed in anything but good business.

Don't tell me what's necessary, you presumptupus pup. What's necessary is whatever I wish to do, regardless of how unnecessary it might be.

Peele gets to the core of what contemporary entitlement looks like—concern with one's personal rights combined with non-interest in one's duties

It would be against all nature for all the Negroes to be either at the bottom, top, or in between. We will go where the internal drive carries us like everybody else. It is up to the individual.

I've accomplished more working on my own than I ever did as part of a team.

There is only room in the lifeboat of your life for one, and you always choose yourself, and turn your parents into whatever it takes to keep you afloat.

I am not an anarchist, but I am anarchistical.

When you are part of a megachurch, you have no responsibility to anybody else.

Look at my arms, you will find no party hand-cuff on them.

I hate to advocate drugs, alcohol, violence, or insanity to anyone, but they've always worked for me.

Ayn Rand was the godmother of laissez faire capitalism, the Virgin Mary of Libertarianism. She died in 1982. She spent her life attempting to turn selfishness into a religion so that people could claim their greed was grounded in the nature of man. Her heinous ideas and crappy books have given politicians philosophical cover to promote their "greed is good" agenda for decades.

And in those final years, when he was off doing shit on his own, Spike didn't stick to the rules. He started to think he was too smart. Too ingenious. He was definitely feeling himself. He even changed his name. When I met him, he was simply

The Arsonist's individualism creates centralization in decision making, but it is decision making with an interesting managerial twist. The Arsonist's decisions are extremely vague, and yet he expects the details to be worked out in exact accordance with wishes that he never explained fully and was probably unaware of initially.