Quotes About Individualism

Individualism. Narcissism. Value-free choices. These are all key elements in the decline of the practice of mutual accountability in Western churches, among clergy and laity alike.

I've always done just pretty much what I wanted to do. I mean, I just did a thing for a small press called 'Zeppelins West' that's nothing but an absolute, over-the-top farce, almost like an Abbott & Costello, alternate-universe Western.

The cult of the individual is killing us. I think Twitter signals the death of western civilisation, but people have been saying that since Demosthenes.

There are libertarians who are survivalists, who live in the middle of nowhere and who are ready for the world to end. And then there are pragmatists, and I would consider myself to be a pretty pragmatic person.

Playwriting is the last great bastion of the individual writer. It's exciting precisely because it's where the money isn't. Money goes to safety, to consensus. It's not individualism.

I prefer to work alone and do everything alone, even today.

In a world of niches, we are enchained by our own consumer preferences.

Not much about California, on its own preferred terms, has encouraged its children to see themselves as connected to one another.

There is only one way left to escape the alienation of present day society: to retreat ahead of it.

The thing for me about Ayn Rand is that her philosophy is the only one applicable to the world today - in every sense. If you take her ideas, then take them farther in your own mind, you can find answers to pretty well everything on an individual basis.

I do love my country. I don't think I'm particularly a good American. I don't know what makes a good American. Other than somebody who - I like people who let other people alone. I think that's a pretty good American. And I keep my hands to myself. So I'm an OK American.

Nobody can dare me to do anything that I don't come up with on my own.

I believe the role of the government is too big. Society must be more decentralized.

No convention on God's foot-stool can, or has a right to, run me and make anything but a Democrat out of me.

Anarchists are simply unterrified Jeffersonian Democrats.

I lived in L.A. for a few months. It seemed like no one there had parents. Or if they did have parents, they would deny it.

To me, DIY means minimizing dependency on what others make for me.

There's no better way to be than depending on yourself.

Christianity has aimed to deliver us from a life determined by nature, from the appetites as actuating us, and so has meant that man should not let himself be determined by his appetites.

Christianity has aimed to deliver us from a life determined by nature, from the appetites as actuating us, and so has meant that man should not let himself be determined by appetites.

The serious questions that are talked out or strangled with red tape are more numerous than those that are killed by silence; the number of people whose ideas are knocked on the head in societies is greater in our day than that of the solitary fighters who go under.

I just usually go with my own taste. If I like something, and it happens to be against the law, well, then I might have a problem.

In Italy, the Milanese are well organized but follow bourgeois taste. They adhere to certain codes of elegance, but not to individualism.

I'm an anarchist. I have it tattooed on my stomach.