Individualism Quotes

They would tell you that governments could not manage things as economically as private individuals;...

Despair is typical of those who do not understand the causes of evil, see no way out, and are incapa...

Freedom in capitalist society always remains about the same as it was in ancient Greek republics: Fr...

Unity is a great thing and a great slogan. But what the workers’ cause needs is the unity of Marxist...

One cannot be pessimistic about the West. This is the native home of hope. When it fully learns that...

Every one is expected to look out for himself here. I fancy that there would be very little rising i...

I believe that the duel between Christianity and atheism is the most important in the world. I furth...

The hero acts alone, without encouragement, relying solely on conviction and his own inner resources...

Religion is what you do with your solitude.

Religion is what you do with your solitude.

Society has parted man from man, neglectful of the universal heart.

When there is no other aim but to outstrip constantly the point arrived at, how painful to be thrown...

Civil government, so far as it is instituted for the security of property, is in reality instituted ...

The Revolution introduced me to art, and in turn, art introduced me to the Revolution!

People are related to one another, not as total personalities, but as the embodiments of economic fu...

Human beings are born with different capacities. If they are free, they are not equal. And if they a...

A whole nation cannot rise above itself.

Men will not accept truth at the hands of their enemies, and truth is seldom offered to them by thei...

Man is an end in himself.

And now I see the face of god, and I raise this god over the earth, this god whom men have sought si...

When you consider socialism, do not fool yourself about its nature. Remember that there is no such d...

When men reject reason, they have no means left for dealing with one another — except brute, physica...

People are not embracing collectivism because they have accepted bad economics. They are accepting b...

The word "We" is as lime poured over men, which sets and hardens to stone, and crushes all beneath i...

There might be some sort of justification for the savage societies in which a man had to expect that...

She smiled. She knew she was dying. But it did not matter any longer. She had known something which ...

Our individualism has always been bound by a set of communal values, the glue upon which every healt...

Salvation lies not in the faithfulness to forms, but in the liberation from them.

But, of course, what mattered most of all was my deep-seated hatred of authority, my monstrous indiv...

for meobedience to another is the decayof self

The cult of self dominates our cultural landscape. This cult has within it the classic traits of psy...

I have always found it quaint and rather touching that there is a movement [Libertarians] in the US ...

Many things in this period have been hard to bear, or hard to take seriously. My own profession went...

The same way a compact disk isn't responsible for what's recorded on it, that's how we are. You're a...

Here beyond men's judgments all covenants were brittle.

Failure to recognize the historical specificity of the bourgeois conception of rights and duties lea...

Your corn is ripe today; mine will be so tomorrow. 'Tis profitable for us both, that I should labour...

The uniqueness of every soul is not a theme that our current culture, obsessed with group identities...

In fact I've reached the stage where I look at people and say - he or she, they are whole at all bec...

The "pathology of normalcy" rarely deteriorates to graver forms of mental illness because society pr...

There were always men who looked beyond the dimensions of their own society- and while they may have...

Our problem isn't that we're individualists. It's that our individualism is static rather than dynam...

Two ideas are opposed — not concepts or abstractions, but Ideas which were in the blood of men befor...

To vigorous men intimacy is a matter of shame--and something precious.

With rope-ladders learned I to reach many a window, with nimble legs did I climb high masts: to sit ...

The individual benefits as an individual from his ability to deny the truth even though society as a...

I like it when a flower or a little tuft of grass grows through a crack in the concrete. It's so fuc...

And yet it was a fact that if Syme grasped, even for three seconds, the nature of his, Winston's, se...

My conduct with my friends is motivated: each being is, I believe, incapable on his own, of going to...

There can be no socialism without a state, and as long as there is a state there is socialism. The s...

Government programs didn’t arise because the people demanded them or because the free market was una...

I have no right to call myself one who knows. I was one who seeks, and I still am, but I no longer s...

It has always been my contention that an individual who can be relied upon to be himself and to be h...

There is, however, hope for any person who wants to remain an individual. He can assert himself and ...

...Individualistic material progress and the desire to gain prestige by coming out on top have taken...

At the same time, however, the necessity for economic change in our countries has led us to conceive...

At the same time, we held back. Because she was different. Different. We had no one to compare her t...

You have to be a light to yourself in a world that is utterly becoming dark.

They might have you, and they pay badly enough to guarantee you decent company.

Loyalty, respect for authority and some degree of sanctification create a more binding social order ...

But love, like the sun that it is, sets afire and melts everything. what greed and privilege to buil...

A child who does not think about what happens around him and is content with living without wonderin...

The first duty of a man is to think for himself

There is no life without the conditions of life that variably sustain life, and those conditions are...

Freedom may never be conceived merely negatively, as the absence of compulsion. Freedom conceived in...

Thou shalt make no image, no abstraction, including none of THE American, THE Swiss, THE German.

Everything is relative in this world, where change alone endures.

The Open Road goes to the used-car lot.

The worship of the state is the worship of force. There is no more dangerous menace to civilization ...

It opens the mind toward an understanding of humannature and destiny. It increases wisdom. It is the...

And yet we have what purports, or professes, or is claimed, to be a contract—the Constitution—made e...

The only way we'll get freedom for ourselves is to identify ourselves with every oppressed people in...

You show me a capitalist, and I'll show you a bloodsucker

The men of the future will yet fight their way to many a liberty that we do not even miss.

I knew I was alone in a way that no earthling has ever been before.

With them the individual counted for nothing. No one was irreplaceable, because they drew no distinc...

The argument for collectivism is simple if false; it is an immediate emotional argument. The argumen...

Phrases like 'the team spirit' are always employed to cut across individualism, love and personal lo...

Typography fostered the modern idea of individuality, but it destroyed the medieval sense of communi...

Men whose only concern is other people's opinion of them are like actors who put on a poor performan...

But in spite of this material prosperity he was a slave. His work and his leisure consisted of fever...

Art is the most intense mode of individualism that the world has known.

To call an artist morbid because he deals with morbidity as his subject-matter is as silly as if one...

For the recognition of private property has really harmed Individualism, and obscured it, by confusi...

The arts that have escaped [uniformity] best are the arts in which the public take no interest. Poet...

If the single man plants himself indomitably on his instincts, and there abides, this huge world wil...

None believeth in the soul of man, but only in some man or person old and departed. Ah me! no man go...

Whoso would be a man, must be a nonconformist. He who would gather immortal palms must not be hinder...

I hold it to be the inalienable right of anybody to go to hell in his own way.

A libertarian is somebody who believes, of course, in personal liberty. And liberty is a personal th...

No state, no government exists. What does in fact exist is a man, or a few men, in power over many m...

Like everything else in the world, it is one man's work.

Becoming a part of a movement doesn't help anybody think clearly.

I am going to the USA to catch sight of a wild porcupine and to give some lectures.

What could be more fundamental to our sense of meaning and purpose than a conception of whether the ...

The foundation of individual rights is the assumption that people have wants and needs and are autho...

Life is, if anything, the art of combination. Of discrimination. Of freely picking one's own persona...

The crowd, in fact, is composed of individuals; it must therefore be in every man's power to become ...

And the wind shall say: 'Here were decent Godless people:Their only monument the asphalt roadAnd a t...

Who would you be but who you are?