Quotes About Individualism

... reason accepts no commandments.

In life we meet some really nice people, you might even make a couple good friends. But at the end of the day it's every man for themselves.

I could die for you. But I couldn't, and wouldn't, live for you.

When important issues affecting the life of an individual are decided by somebody else, it makes no difference to the individual whether that somebody else is a king, a dictator, or society at large

I swear, by my life and my love of it, that I will never live for the sake of another man, nor ask another man to live for mine.

Achieving life is not the equivalent of avoiding death.

Our imperfection is what make us perfect in our own ways and it's what makes us different and special from the others.

La capacidad de observar – ni siquiera de analizar – está muy mermada hoy en día, cuando todos quieren ser protagonistas.

A culture focused on individual freedom can only result in narcissism, polarization, conflict, estrangement, and loneliness. What is the meaning of life when it's all about me?

We could have been anything we wanted, yet our free-floating individualism has taken us far from community, contribution or connection, the very things that truly give life meaning and purpose.

He was a mean man, it's true, but he got ahead. A man gets on by working harder than the rest—that's what he used to say—and if he doesn't get anywhere, he hasn't a soul to blame but himself.

Too bad to deprive them, but if a person doesn't look after herself in this world, no one else is likely to.

There's no such thing as society. There are individual men and women, and there are families. And no government can do anything except through people, and people must look to themselves first.

I owe nothing to Women's Lib.

There is no such thing as society: there are individual men and women, and there are families.

well it used to be about trying to do something, now it is about trying to be someone

Some Socialists seem to believe that people should be numbers in a State computer. We believe they should be individuals. We are all unequal. No one, thank heavens, is like anyone else, however much the Socialists may pretend otherwise. We believe that everyone has the right to be unequal but to us every human being is equally important.

All collectivism is always conducive to oppression: it is only the victims who differ.

People are all purpose tokens, but you must remember each adds, subtracts, multiplies, divides, integrates… in its unique way. It is difficult and unfair to use generalized laws.

Whoever seeks to live by brain and pen alone is, at the beginning of such a career, treated as a sort of social pariah.

A society that puts equality before freedom will get neither. A society that puts freedom before equality will get a high degree of both.

Political freedom cannot exist without economic freedom; a free mind and a free market are corollaries.

We are living in the excesses of freedom. Just take a look at 42nd Street and Broadway.

The special trait making me an anarch is that I live in a world which I 'ultimately' do not take seriously. This increases my freedom; I serve as a temporary volunteer