Quotes About Individualist

I'm like the opposite of an 'office guy.' I don't want to be at the arena until right before my match.

I'm a maverick. I've always been a maverick.

Major Major's father was a sober God-fearing man whose idea of a good joke was to lie about his age. He was a long-limbed farmer, a God-fearing, freedom-loving, law-abiding rugged individualist who held that federal aid to anyone but farmers was creeping socialism. He advocated thrift and hard work and disapproved of loose women who turned him down.

He was a long-limbed farmer, a God-fearing, freedom-loving, law-abiding rugged individualist who held that federal aid to anyone but farmers was creeping socialism.

I do not know whether this man is a traitor or not, but he is an individualist, and in war the two are the same.

The adventurer, by minimum definition, is an individualist. The life of adventure is an unsocial game; therefore in direct contrast with the married, supported life which is nuclear society itself.

I valued my independence from an early age and was always something of a individualist … Well, a show-off anyway.

I have come to hold that Causality is not composed exclusively of determinist, individualist, or random elements, but from a combination of all three.

For, whatever was the case in de Tocqueville's day, not the passion for egalitarianism but an individualist, that is anti-authoritarian, antinomian though curiously legalistic anarchism, has become the core of the value system in the USA.

I did photography in summer camp; I did it in high school. The only hard decision I've had to make was whether to go towards photo or film. And I ultimately realized that the type of photo I was interested in was actually photojournalism. And it's a very individualist career, whereas film is a very team-driven medium. So that's why I chose film.

Mavericks are nonconformists. They pride themselves on going it alone.

If A says to B please tell C something, does B have any obligation to do so? It would depend, thought Isabel, on whether B had agreed to take on the duty of passing on the message. If he had not, then a liberal individualist philosopher would probably say that he did not have to exert himself. That was liberal individualism, of course, with which Isabel did not always agree. Don't go swimming with a liberal individualist, she told herself; he might not save you if you started to drown.

The ideal American type is perfectly expressed by the Protestant, individualist, anti-conformist, and this is the type that is in the process of disappearing. In reality there are few left.

First of all, whoever didn't want to be a member of this association or the other association, was branded, you know, like a dangerous individualist, you know, infected by the Western decadence, you know. So everybody joined.

Only in baseball can a team player be a pure individualist first and a team player second, within the rules and spirit of the game.

A few years ago, there was a popular stage play in London—you'll have to pardon me, but I'm quoting accurately—titled Shopping and F***ing. That's an apt description of the passions of our era, the goals most of us, liberal and conservative, aspire to. Democrats are the Party of Lust, Republicans the Party of Greed—both are individualist and materialist to the core.

He's the maverick of the firm, the one who breaks the rules.

We don't seem to be good at integrating novelties with our social lives, do we? The world of the etiquette book fell to pieces at the end of the last century, and there has been no code of manners to tell us how to deal with anything invented since. Not even rules for an individualist to break, which is itself another blow at freedom. Rather a pity, don't you think?

At 14 and 15, I was sort of my town's resident beatnik.

The inside story on a man was that if he wanted to be successful, he must become a rugged individualist, but then should make some adjustments.

When I was young I was called a rugged individualist. When I was in my fifties I was considered eccentric. Here I am doing and saying the same things I did then and I'm labeled senile.

I am a member of the rabble in good standing.

The American Indian was an individualist in religion as in war. He had neither a national army nor an organized church.

I always go for the underdog or the rogue or the rebel.