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Quotes About Individualism

han drev, ridde på bicycle og var radikal.
~ Knut Hamsun
Satan is an individualist. He upsets the commandments of Heaven which enforce a definite moral conduct. He inspires us with dreams and hopes. He endows us with bitterness and discontent, but in the end he leads us to the Better, and thus mainly serves the Good. He is that 'force that strives for evil yet causes the good.
~ Kurt Seligmann
Self-regarding considerations can be as universalizable as other-regarding considerations: we owe things to ourselves as well to others
~ Kwame Anthony Appiah
But I was raised in the United States, and I won't allow any one-horse chicken of the Land of Ev to run over me and put on airs, as long as I can lift a claw in self-defense.
~ L. Frank Baum
There exists no "invisible hand"—that was always an unfortunate turn of phrase—but billions of highly visible fingers, doing, purely for personal gain, what others will freely barter for, with the sole object of improving their lives and those of their children.
~ L. Neil Smith
No man can use his brain to think for another.
~ Ayn Rand
No matter how worthy the cause, it is robbery, theft, and injustice to confiscate the property of one person and give it to another to whom it does not belong.
~ Walter E. Williams
This I must fight against: any idea, religion, or government which limits or destroys the individual.
~ John Steinbeck
Every day people are straying away from the church and going back to God.
~ Lenny Bruce
The national anthem of hell is, "I Did It My Way."
~ Peter Kreeft
Religion is the best antidote to the individualism of the consumer age. The idea that society can do without it flies in the face of history and, now, evolutionary biology.
~ Jonathan Sacks
No one has the right to tell me what to do because he has a divine warrant.
~ Christopher Hitchens
The term that best describes me now is 'secular humanist.'
~ Charles M. Schulz
I do not concern myself with gods and spirits either good or evil nor do I serve any.
~ Lao Tzu
Catholicism is contrary to human liberty. Catholicism bases salvation upon belief. Catholicism teaches man to trample his reason under foot. And for that reason it is wrong.
~ Robert Green Ingersoll
I don't approve of religion.
~ Ayn Rand
I am an intransigent atheist, though not a militant one. This means that I am not fighting against religion - I am fighting for reason.
~ Ayn Rand
Filling out the form: Race? Human. Religion? Paiute. Occupation? Criminal anarchy. Hobbies? Survival with honor.
~ Edward Abbey
As a rule, Americans are big on that word "choice" and some souls can be captured simply by dangling before the creature a continual, lifelong supply of things from which to choose.
~ Geoffrey Wood
I AM RESPONSIBLE FOR THE THING I DO NOT WHAT MY COMMUNITY OR RELIGION DOES.
~ merlin8thomas
All atheists must examine the Non Aggression Principle.
~ Stefan Molyneux
If one doesn't respect oneself one can have neither love nor respect for others.
~ Ayn Rand
Whether you're a libertarian liberal or a more egalitarian liberal, the idea is that justice means being non-judgmental with respect to the preferences people bring to public life.
~ Michael Sandel
The only laws a man can truly respect are the ones he makes for himself.
~ William Powell