Quotes About Individualism

Obedience indeed is only the pitiful and cowardly egotism of him who thinks that he can do something better than reason.

Twin-sister of Religion, Selfishness.

Some people my age are seduced by this libertarian idea of having very little of anything by way of a role for government. I found that in my personal experience, freedom is secured by good government just as it's threatened by bad government.

In his book Lincoln at Gettysburg: Words That Remade America, Garry Wills (2006) argues that it was Lincoln in the Gettysburg Address who transformed America's individualism-oriented Constitution, with all its checks and balances, into a vision of the common good. Lincoln is the de facto godfather of the common good.

America was founded by rugged individuals who created government to secure their rights and leave them alone. Americans today want government to violate other people's rights, steal their stuff, and give it to them. The home of the free has become the land of the freeloader.

No More Salvation by Society

On Earth everybody is a foreigner to their neighbour. It's because we're all squashed up so tight. Privacy is a cherished commodity. In public places, people don't chat to strangers, they avoid eye contact. It's because that's the way they want to be treated. I'm

I have always maintained that society has no business dictating morality.

I have often thought it was very arrogant to suppose you could make a film for anybody but yourself.

The freer a society is, the more it leaves the family alone.

The national anthem of Hell is 'I did it my way.

Each of the soldiers had taken plunder for himself.

In those days there was no king in Israel; everyone did what was right in his own eyes.

In those days there was no king in Israel; everyone did what was right in his own eyes.