Quotes About Individualism

I guess the Reagan era is defined as the 'I want it all for me, and screw everybody else' era.

I think my whole deal was I didn't think other people had a right to an opinion. I think the problem I had was, in real life, it was my way or the highway, and if people disagreed with me, then they were just wrong.

One thing I realised was that everyone is different. You can't compare two human beings.

'Our thing' is turning into 'my thing' within the Mafia, just as the larger American society is facing the new realities of the 'me generation.'

I believe in small governments or no governments. I think the majority of people want to have big government, a big brother taking care of them.

Your character - you own it. That's something you have to grab hold of on 'This Is England'. Your character is your character.

When you have a lot of talent, you don't necessarily have to be gracious and consider everyone.

The great thing about libertarianism is it really is the American dream: It's the ability of everybody to live their life and build their life according to what they want, so long as they don't hurt anybody else.

People always choose self-preservation over the greater good, most of the time, with the belief that self-preservation is the greater good.

My coming of age was in the '70s. A lot of people look back on it as a grim decade, but I look back on it as a liberating time.

Burzum was never formed, as Burzum is no group, only Count Grishnackh of many colors.

It's kind of like those little electric bumper cars where you drive around and see if you can hit the other guy. That's exactly what the country is like now. You no longer have the sense of community. Of loyalty. It's lost its sense of group. It has nothing to do with leadership.

I don't believe in collective guilt, but I do believe in collective responsibility.

The fact that you own a gun and shoot to defend your life is a very American way of thinking.

Maybe there really only was one singular white man staring down at the world from his official boots and his official vehicle and his official sunglasses hanging high over his official smirk.

Do not put too much faith in government

The atrophy of individual culture through the hypertrophy of objective culture is one reason for the bitter hatred which the preachers of the most extreme individualism, above all Nietzsche, harbour against the metropolis.

The longer I observe the way people really act, the happier I am that I never pay attention to them. The

The ordinary man is an anarchist. He wants to do as he likes. He may want his neighbour to be governed, but he himself doesn't want to be governed. He is mortally afraid of government officials and policemen.

The ordinary man is an anarchist. He wants to do as he likes. He may want his neighbor to be governed, but he himself doesn't want to be governed.

I'm happy to tell you there is very little in this world that I believe in.

Avoid teams at all cost. Keep your circle small. Never join a group that has a name.

But for conservatives, the very idea that the private depends on the public is anathema—immoral.

Could it be, I wonder, that there is such a thing as a wantologist, someone we can hire to figure out what we want? Have I arrived at some final telling moment in my research on outsourcing intimate parts of our lives, or at the absurdist edge of the market frontier?