Quotes About Individualism

Siamo monadi, incapaci di messaggi reciproci, o capaci solo di messaggi monchi, falsi in partenza, fraintesi all'arrivo.

He saw that, without exception, human beings were driven by self-interest.

postmodern man who denies the existence of any Truth and believes that each of us makes his own truth that is as valid as any other.

Existentialism means that no one else can take a bath for you.

This is America . . . where every adult shall have the full and inalienable right to eat her young

We're not our brother's keeper, Joseph. In fact, it's an insult to our brother to presume he can't take care of himself.

Identity without democracy is totalitarian; democracy without identity is weak and self-betraying.

I want three words: Woman, Atheist, Anarchist. That's me.

One of the very first serious books I read when I was growing up was 'Atlas Shrugged.'

You know what that big number was? It was 1957. It's not the year I was born. I'm a little older than that. I wish it was the year I was born. It was the year one of my favorite books was written: 'Atlas Shrugged.' Ayn Rand.

I don't run behind authority.

I don't care much about society.

This is America. You're entitled to believe what you want.

I don't envy or much respect people who are completely politicised.

The 1960s was an era of big thoughts. And yet, amazingly, each of these thoughts could fit on a T-shirt.

I won't ever got to a place that's racist, and I will tell everybody else not to and I'll speak against them. But it should be their right to be racist.

we are to progress or evolve, we must release ourselves from religious individualism and confront the general religious experience, which is cosmic and evolutionary, and involve ourselves in it.

Onze tijd is niet gunstig voor het behoud van het individu.

Now, I happen to be an Ayn Rand enthusiast, the philosopher-author whose caustic but penetrating eye espied some factors in society normally overlooked by a lot of people. In her philosophical tracts and in her best-selling novels The Fountainhead and Atlas Shrugged

schizophrenic land of liberty

It follows that these people [INTJs] cannot be successfully coerced. They will not even be told anything without their permission, but they will accept an offer of facts, opinions, or theories, for free consideration;

To have a home, a family, a property or a public function, to have a definite means of livelihood and to be a useful cog in the social machine, all these things seem necessary, even indispensable, to the vast majority of men, including intellectuals, and including even those who think of themselves as wholly liberated. And yet such things are only a different form of slavery that comes of contact with others, especially regulated and continued contact.

Let every fox take care of his own tail.

Le vélo élève la mobilité autogène de l'homme jusqu'à un nouveau degré, au-delà duquel il n'y a plus en théorie de progrès possible. À l'opposé, la cabine individuelle accélérée a rendu les sociétés capables de s'engager dans un rituel de la vitesse qui progressivement les paralyse.