Quotes About Individualism

He who would be well taken care of must take care of himself.

All sensible people are selfish, and nature is tugging at every contract to make the terms of it fair.

It is not from the benevolence of the butcher, the brewer, or the baker, that we expect our dinner, but from their regard to their own interest. We address ourselves, not to their humanity but to their self-love, and never talk to them of our necessities but of their advantages.

Self-reliance is its aversion. It loves not realities and creators, but names and customs.

This gives force to the strong -- that the multitude have no habit of self-reliance or original action.

The advice I would give to someone is to not take anyone's advice.

The best advice is this: Don't take advice and don't give advice.

Every man for himself and the Devil for all.

Some women never talk about other women; they are too busy talking about themselves.

The influence of secular culture has become so thorough that many do not even believe in the existence of good and evil. They consider all moral standards to be based on individual preferences or societal factors.

Each person, makes their own terrible passion their god.

I die, as I have lived, a free spirit, an Anarchist, owing no allegiance to rulers, heavenly or earthly.

Is it a reasonable thing, I ask you, for a grown man to run about and hit a ball? Poker's the only game fit for a grown man. Then, your hand is against every man's, and every man's is against yours. Teamwork? Who ever made a fortune by teamwork? There's only one way to make a fortune, and that's to down the fellow who's up against you.

Goddamn the whole fucking world and everyone in it except you, Carlotta!

Expect no help from others, for who Talk sense to princes or refer to The scorpion in official speeches As they unveil some granite Progress Leading a child and holding a bunch Of lilies?

When everyone is somebody, then no one's anybody.

If freedom were not so economically efficient it certainly wouldn't stand a chance.

I give out Atlas Shrugged as Christmas presents, and I make all my interns read it.

People are self-absorbed. I think that the mass ability of communication now probably allows individuals to meet more self-absorbed individuals. It has certainly changed the way that people meet.

The leftist is anti-individualistic... He is not the sort of person who has an inner sense of confidence in his own ability to solve his own problems and satisfy his own needs.

The nice thing about egotists is that they don't talk about other people.

Old elephants limp off to the hills to die; old Americans go out to the highway and drive themselves to death with huge cars.

In a shipwreck, it is every drowning man for himself.

The American nuclear family made America great, but few are now defending it against forces determined to destroy it. If America continues to have many immigrants with different family types, we are less likely to maintain American values of personal freedom, individualism, and limited government.