Quotes About Individualism

Dan bukankan satu ciri manusia modern adalah juga kemenangan individu atas lingkungannya dengan prestasi individual? Individu-individu kuat sepatutnya bergabung mengangkat sebangsanya yang lemah, memberinya lampu pada yang kegelapan dan memberi mata pada yang buta

Only when the human spirit is allowed to invent and create, only when individuals are given a personal stake in deciding economic policies and benefiting from their success -- only then can societies remain economically alive, dynamic, prosperous, progressive and free.

The classical Liberal, during the Revolutionary time, was a man who wanted less power for the king and more power for the people. He wanted people to have more say in the running of their lives and he wanted protection for the God-given rights of the people. He did not believe those rights were dispensations granted by the king to the people, he believed that he was born with them. Well, that today is the Conservative.

Privatization means dehumanization of society.

Man is the measure of all things.

At the king's court every one for himself.

But today the united city has ceased to exist; there is no more communion of ideas. The town is a chance agglomeration of people who do not know one another, who have no common interest, save that of enriching themselves at the expense of one another.

We take men for what they are worth-and that is why we hate the government of man by man

The mitigated individualism of the collectivist system certainly could not maintain itself alongside a partial communism

El virtuosismo de los ingleses en el género biográfico es sin duda una consecuencia de la antigüedad de sus instituciones democráticas y del culto al individuo que de ello se deriva.

Sexual intercourse is a poor substitute for masturbation.

I do what I like anyhow any time. My life is one long holiday.

The goal of society constituted in this way is consequently the common good, which is superior to the proper good of each individual, despite what individualism claims. The common good, nevertheless, ought not to absorb the proper good as communism claims. "The common good of the multitude is greater and more divine than that of an individual" (De Regno, Ch. IX). It is peace, the tranquility of order in the city or the nation.

Whatever we treasure for ourselves separates us from others; our possessions are our limitations.

Self-service' puts all classes on the same shopping level, doing the work for themselves; the

The one thing you can say about people for sure, is that they'll only free themselves if freedom is in their own interest.

The one thing you can say about people for sure,' Ryan said, 'is that they'll only free themselves if freedom is in their own interest.

What I lived as feminism were in fact the male values my parents, among others, well-meaningly bequeathed me—the cross-dressing values of my father, and the anti-feminine values of my mother. So I am not a feminist. I am a self-hating transvestite.

The capacity to be intrinsic and vulgar is American.

I'm not a big family person. I'm more of a loner.

I'm not a big fan of any team; I'm a fan of players.

People own their own bodies and have the absolute right to put anything they want into it.

Friedrich Nietzsche

British people do not like being bossed around.