Quotes About Individualism

Father John Misty imagines that he is a rebel. He is, but he does not realize what he is rebelling against.

I don't think that I have ever been rebellious. The thing is that I don't believe in people - what people tell me. I have to accept it in my own brain first. I don't listen to anyone, never.

It's important to recognise every player is different in their own characteristics, personality, and what they respond to.

There is really no right and wrong. I recognize no right and wrong.

Nothing seems to matter but ourselves. That's not how I was brought up. I don't recognize the country I live in anymore.

I have to say when a man lives for himself, it's hard to live with him. That's pretty much the story of all my divorces. I've been making records since I was 22 and done things my way, and it's hard for me to compromise. And of course, to have a successful relationship, one has to compromise. Sometimes I'm not good at it.

Those who fear that we are losing our individualism couldn't be more wrong: Americans have never been more free to create and recreate themselves.

Neoliberalism is hard to define. It could refer to intensified resource extraction, financialization, austerity, or something more ephemeral - a way of life - in which collective ideals of citizenship give way to marketized individualism and consumerism.

I have a really hard time with people telling me what to do.

I'm a hardcore libertarian - I want everything legal - but I also believe that you have the right to free association.

What I was really saying in 'The Examined Life' was that I was no longer as hardcore a libertarian as I had been before.

To hell with love of country - I compete for myself.

Since 'Huckleberry Finn,' or thereabouts, it seemed that all American literature was about the alienated hero.

The whole brunt of the media and the government is to encourage people to be highly competitive and totally selfish and uncaring of others.

Part of the myth is that these model citizens have been given nothing by the government and have made it on their own. The American Dream is that any honest, self-disciplined, hard-working person can do the same.

The one principle of hell is – "I am my own

No one can say he is himself, until first he knows that he is, and then what himself is. In fact, nobody is himself, and himself is nobody.

Man serves the interests of no creature except himself.

He wondered vaguely whether in the abolished past it had been a normal experience to lie in bed like this, in the cool of a summer evening, a man and a woman with no clothes on, making love when they chose, talking of what they chose, not feeling any compulsion to get up, simply lying there and listening to peaceful sounds outside. Surely there could never have been a time when that seemed ordinary?

The food crank is by definition a person willing to cut himself off from human society in the hopes of adding five years onto the life of his carcase; that is, a person out of touch with common humanity.

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The enemies of intellectual liberty always try to present their case as a plea for discipline versus individualism.

The Americans always go one better on any kind of beastliness, whether it is ice-cream soda, racketeering or theosophy.

Like all other modern people, the English are in process of being numbered, labelled, conscripted, 'coordinated'. But the pull of their impulses is in the other direction