Quotes About Individualism

I need no warrant for being, and no word of sanction upon my being. I am the warrant and the sanction.

Loneliness is the price we have to pay for being born in this modern world, so full of freedom, independence and our own egotistical selves.

Loneliness is the price we have to pay for being born in this modern world, so full of freedom, independence and our own egotistical selves." The young man can't think of anything to say in response. The truth of the statement is too stark for him.

Worse, Lee felt isolated. In Texas he skipped meals with others to avoid "uninteresting men," wishing he was back by his campfire on the plains eating his meals alone.211 He avoided sharing quarters and found that he "would infinitely prefer my tent to my-self."212 In a group he felt more alone than out on the prairie, and that "my pleasure is derived from my own thoughts.

The pure products of Americago crazy—

Then all meaning was in the group . . . today . . . all is in the individual.

I believe that the duel between Christianity and atheism is the most important in the world. I further believe that the struggle between individualism and collectivism is the same struggle reproduced on another level.

There is an inverse relationship between reliance on the state and self-reliance.

I really prefer books. No matter how bad a book is, it's unique, but people are all so ordinary. —I think we really like books that make us hate ourselves.

It is remarkable that jealousy of individual property in land often goes along with very exaggerated doctrines of tribal or national property in land.

The idea of the "free man," as we understand it, is the product of a revolt against mediaeval and feudal ideas; and

they ignore all the effects on other members of society than the ones they have in view. They

The fact that my neighbor has succeeded in this struggle better than I constitutes no grievance for me. Certain

What have our ancestors been striving for, under the name of civil liberty, for the last five hundred years? They have been striving to bring it about that each man and woman might live out his or her life according to his or her own notions of happiness and up to the measure of his or her own virtue and wisdom. How

That a society of free men, co-operating under contract, is by far the strongest society which has ever yet existed; that

Every man and woman in society has one big duty. That is, to take care of his or her own self. This is a social duty. For

I am one of humanity, and I do not want any volunteer friends. I regard friendship as mutual, and I want to have my say about it. I

Some people have resolved to be teetotalers, and they want a law passed to make everybody else a teetotaler. Some people have resolved to eschew luxury, and they want taxes laid to make others eschew luxury. The

Sumner invented the phrase is, unfortunately, but typical of the perversion of words and phrases indulged in by our present-day "liberals" in their attempt to further their revolution by diverting the loyalties of individualists to collectivist theories and beliefs.

The free man in a free democracy, when he cut off all the ties which might pull him down, severed also all the ties by which he might have made others pull him up. He must take all the consequences of his new status. He

A free man in a free democracy has no duty whatever toward other men of the same rank and standing, except respect, courtesy, and good-will. We

The contemporary American writer is in no way a part of the social and political scene. He is therefore not muzzled, for no one fears his bite; nor is he called upon to compose. Whatever work he does must proceed from a reckless inner need.

A PRIME TRUTH - MAN IS SELFISH (Name of chapter)

Governments do not create, individuals create. Every invention was once just a thought inside someones head.