Quotes About Individualism

I never loved another person the way I loved myself.

the world are made of Selfishness but the biggest problem is myself

My favorite summary of the concept of defining your own responsibility for the problems of others was given in a joke, current several years ago. After being surrounded by 10,000 hostile Indians, the Lone Ranger turned to Tonto and remarked, "I guess this is it, Kimo Sabe. It looks like we have had it," whereupon Tonto, surveying the impending disaster, turned and replied, "What do you mean we, white man?

We no longer have a simple relationship with our own bodies, with ourselves.

Such sudden respectability for undisciplined self-interest is one of the most surprising developments of the last three decades. It seems to indicate just how confused our society has become.

The core of this ideology is the marginalization of the public good in favour of Hobbesian self-interest: fear

Libertarians secretly worried that ultimately someone will figure out the whole of their political philosophy boils down to "Get Off My Property." News flash: This is not really a big secret to the rest of us.   I

No Gods Or Kings. Only Man. -Andrew Ryan

The quality of owning freezes you forever in I, and cuts you off forever from the we.

And, of course, people are interested only in themselves. If a story is not about the hearer he will not listen.

This is the thing to bomb. This is the beginning—from I to we. If you who own the things people must have could understand this, you might preserve yourself. If you could separate causes from results, if you could know that Paine, Marx, Jefferson, Lenin were results, not causes, you might survive. But that you cannot know. For the quality of owning freezes you forever into I, and cuts you off forever from the we.

For the quality of owning freezes you forever into "I," and cuts you off forever from the "we.

If you who own the things people must have could understand this, you might preserve yourself. If you could separate causes from results, if you could know that Paine, Marx, Jefferson, Lenin,3 were results, not causes, you might survive. But that you cannot know. For the quality of owning freezes you forever into "I,'' and cuts you off forever from the "we.

Having broken out of his own Spartanism, he

But that you cannot know. For the quality of owning freezes you forever into "I,'' and cuts you off forever from the "we.'' The Western States are nervous under the beginning change. Need is the stimulus to concept, concept to action. A half-million people moving over the country; a million more restive, ready to move; ten million more feeling the first nervousness

Ayn Rand brings the best and the worst animal instinct out in humans. Well, excuse me, I aspire to be further evolved ethically than that. I really believe that Ayn Rand is the Marilyn Monroe of philosophy--all seduction, little substance.

The only freedom which deserves the name, is that of pursuing our own good in our own way, so long as we do not attempt to deprive others of theirs, or impede their efforts to obtain it.

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

I don't design houses with the nuclear family idea because I don't believe in it as a concept.

In the West, the basic economic and social unit is the individual; in Africa, it is the extended family or the collective.

All I can do is worry about me and my family. I don't really worry about anybody else, they have to do what works for them

Privacy is a bourgeois fantasy.

My father told me, never have partners.

I am Zarathustra the Godless: where shall I find my equal? All those who give themselves their own will and renounce all submission, they are my equals.