Quotes About Individualism

I'm starting to wonder if pop culture is in its dying days, because everyone is able to customize their own lives with the images they want to see and the words they want to read and the music they listen to. You don't have the broader trends like you used to.

With Marouane's hair, I actually wondered if it might take a bit of the pace off the ball when he went up for a header. But I soon realised it was part of his personality. Part of who he is.

Does defending liberalism leave you friendless and perhaps wondering about your breath?

I'm going to live in the woods one day. Hunt, be weird, not have to listen to people call me a psycho all the time.

The roots of the word 'anarchy' are 'an archos,' 'no leaders,' which is not really about the kind of chaos that most people imagine when the word 'anarchy' is mentioned. I think that anarchy is, to the contrary, about taking personal responsibility for yourself.

There is no word more generally misinterpreted than the word egoism, in its modern sense.

Communism doesn't work because people like to own stuff.

Well, one of the most important things for Americans to be reminded of is that a lot of the exceptional nature of our country is founded in Judeo-Christian values that promotes individualism, personal responsibility, a strong work ethic, and a commitment to family, charity.

I kind of grew up with a mix of two things. One was kind of this individual work ethic that my father and my stepfather and my mother all taught me, which was never depend on anyone else to do things for you, and work really hard on your own. At the same time, I benefited from the help of church and family and government my whole life.

I'm a Republican, but I'm a Republican from the old school. I was taught that you get what you put into it. You can be anything you want to be if you work hard enough at it, and you can earn your place. That's the old way.

I loved Debussy, Stravinsky, Chopin, Tchaikovsky, anything with romantic melodies, especially the nocturnes. Nietzsche was a hero, especially with 'Thus Spoke Zarathustra.' He gets a bad rap; he's very misunderstood. He's a maker of individuals, and he was a teacher of teachers.

I can still crack a safe with one hand tied behind my back. I'm not proud of it. But I was always against society.

I have always been an anarchist and a monarchist.

You've got all these books on self help, getting to know yourself, doing the right thing, eating the so-called right foods, even down to what books you have on your shelves. People are encouraged to look to themselves first as opposed to being a part of society.

Can anyone do much for anyone else unless by making a will in his favour and dying then and there? Should not each look after his own happiness, and will not the world be best carried on if everyone minds his own business and leaves other people to mind theirs?

He had a good healthy sense of meum, and as little of tuum as he could help. Brought up much in the open air in one of the best situated and healthiest villages in England, his little limbs had fair play, and in those days children's brains were not overtasked as they now are; perhaps it was for this very reason that the boy showed an avidity to learn. At seven or eight years old he could read, write and sum better than any other boy of his age in the village. My

Again and again both Westerners and non-Westerners point to individualism as the central distinguishing mark of the West.

One can be inclined to just say, "F this political correctness! I don't have time for that!"

We live in a time where there's an alienation factor. There's a certain disconnection. We don't have any real sense of community anymore.

It's time for the party of big ideas, not the party of Big Brother!

It is important for this country to make its people so obsessed with their own liberal individualism that they do not have time to think about a world larger than self.

We're seeing the fulfillment of the Book of Judges here in our own time - every man doing that which is right in his own eyes.

Millie Beggs, by the time she was forty-five, had become an emotional anarchist.

At a time when individualism is becoming an endangered species, jazz represents a celebration of the individual.