Quotes About Individualism

I certainly am a feminist but, in my cinema, I don't talk about any 'isms'. I deal only with individuals; even if an 'ism' surfaces, it is not underlined.

I don't read other science fiction. I don't read any at all.

Fans love McGregor, but 11 out of 10 fighters will say they don't like him because he respects nobody. I'd be 100 percent on his side if he respected others, but he only cares about himself.

Fitzgerald was a modernist.

Reason is not automatic. Those who deny it cannot be conquered by it. Do not count on them. Leave them alone.

Whoever feels predestined to see and not to believe will find all believers too noisy and pushy: he guards against them.

Whoever you are, this is America. You can believe or do whatever you want.

Most people think when the world gets itself together, we'll all be okay. I don't see that situation arriving. I think one by one, we all free ourselves from the chains we have chained ourselves to. But I don't think that suddenly some magic happens and the whole lot of us will all be liberated in one throw.

Mark all mathematical heads which be wholly and only bent on these sciences, how solitary they be themselves, how unfit to live with others, how unapt to serve the world.

The fictional character with whom I most profoundly identified was Yossarian in Catch-22. Always did, still do.

America is great not because it's a team. America is great because it is a nation whose founding documents elevated the rights of the individual.

I was interested in the ideas - freedom, free speech and having control of my own life. That's why I became a Tory.

We live in a capitalistic society, don't we? Our country is based on the idea of the free market. Why not incorporate that free-market ideal into your career as a mixed martial artist?

I'm not a writing group member, not a joiner in that way. I don't seek a wide swath of feedback.

Philosophically, I believe that libertarianism - and the wider creed of sound individualism of which libertarianism is a part - must rest on absolutism and deny relativism.

I tend to really be partial to Ayn Rand, and to The Fountainhead and Atlas Shrugged.

I think the character does tend to suit an episodic thing, because what's fun about him is that he doesn't care about anyone else, and it's very difficult for a main character - a lead character - in a movie to not care about anybody else.

I tend to personally judge issue by issue rather than sort of endorsing this football-team mentality that we fall into in this country, where it's all about the team.

Today's average American is more apt to rebel against a tennis shoe not coming in the right color than against the slow erosion of our democratic freedom.

I think Americans generally are not used to working very hard, in terms of working for the collective. I think in our country we have taken individualism to its farthest reaches, possibly.

I'm a libertarian. It's a terrible word.

The '90s and early 2000s were the 'I' decade. iPhone, the iPod - everything was about me. Look where that got us? In a terrible recession.

You couldn't put me in a social group setting. I'm probably a terrible anarchist deep down.

Personalization is everywhere. We are constantly asked, directly or indirectly, to create Our Own Whatever - containing and limited to our 'favorite sources of information.' Republicans do that; Democrats do it; environmentalists do it; terrorists do it; science fiction enthusiasts do it. That's a real problem, I think.