Quotes About Individualism

Democracy is essentially anti-authoritarian--that is, it not only demands the right but imposes the responsibility of thinking for ourselves.

That's the American Dream: to make your life into something you can sell.

I did everything. I ran my life exactly as I wanted to, all the time. I never listened to anybody. I'm pig-headed.

Art is socialism but life is capitalism.

Anyone who thinks he has a better idea of what's good for people than people do is a swine.

I've decided that my motto in life is "Get off my lawn." It's the right answer to everything.

I never made a decision in my life that wasn't one hundred per cent selfish.

what's right? If you want something, you have the right to take it. If you want to do something, you have the right to do it.

I think the novel is the American form because people read it in private, and the only valuable things that happen in America happen in private life, because public life is a dead loss.

Life is a value to be bought and thinking is the only coin noble enough to buy it.

Into every tidy scheme for arranging the pattern of human life, it is necessary to inject a certain dose of anarchism.

When there is no room for individualism in ballparks, then there will be no room for individualism in life.

Liberalism is like this: Purporting to offer a middle ground between radical individualism and collectivism, what it really gives us is a diabolical synthesis of the two, a bureaucratically managed libertinism.

Human rulers get poisoned or decapitated or simply voted out of office all the time, as our set of personal desires, our chimpanzee DNA, rears its individualistic head.

Everyone is selfish in various ways. Indeed, it is tough to accept and say; I am selfish.

Everyone is selfish in various ways; indeed, it is a tough confession to accept and say; I am selfish.

To dictate self-interests than mutual, cannot surpass and prevail, upon one who stays self-determined.

Listen, I have been educated. I have learned about Western Civilization. Do you know What the message of Western Civilization is? I am alone.

The American cult of rugged individualism makes human men think they're all supposed to be alphas, but it doesn't work that way.

I, me, my, mine— Each one a danger sign. "That's what the witches used to tell us. Listen for those words, they said. If a person uses them too often or with too much emphasis, then he or she is sinking down into the well of self. And that is a dangerous situation. You may be face-to-face with a greedhead or a power freak.

What did I care anymore about his political opinions, about Pasquale and Nadia, about the death of Ulrike Meinhof, the birth of the Socialist Republic of Vietnam, the electoral advances of the Communist Party? The world had retreated. I felt sunk inside myself, inside my flesh, which seemed to me not only the sole dwelling possible but also the only material for which it was worthwhile to struggle.

both had always known instinctively that the limbs of a man are not nourished when he fills the belly of another, and that those who would make you believe it should sooner or later get what they deserve.

I thought maybe Against Nature would be a book about someone who viewed things the way I did - someone trying to live a life unmarred by laziness, cowardice, and conformity.

I like to fuck a lot and drop acid becomes one of our rallying cries, better than any Ohh-rah or Semper fi.