Individualism Quotes

Individualism Quote of the day

To be a socialist is to submit the I to the thou; socialism is sacrificing the individual to the whole.

All I know is, if you listen to society, you'll never get anywhere!

Comrades! We must abolish the cult of the individual decisively, once and for all

To achieve world government, it is necessary to remove from the minds of men, their individualism, loyalty to family traditions, national patriotism and religious dogmas.

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

The duel between Christianity and atheism is the most important in the world, and the struggle between individualism and collectivism is the same struggle reproduced on another level.

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

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

In a society in which individualism is becoming rampant, people more and more believe that they are the center of the world. Such a belief system makes individual failure almost inconsolable.

Before Sunrise did very well internationally. It made as much in Italy and Korea as it did here.

Liberty is not collective, it is personal. All liberty is individual liberty.

Jean's whole job is to protect Victoria. Jean is a very practical, very orderly, very disciplined person; she is the personality called the gatekeeper.

The first duty of a man is to think for himself

In such a condition of affairs, the practical difference between the abolitionist and the sympathizer, to the man who lost his slave and could not recover it, was very nebulous.

The only way we'll get freedom for ourselves is to identify ourselves with every oppressed people in the world. We are blood brothers to the people of Brazil, Venezuela, Haiti, Cuba -- yes Cuba too.

I got tattoos for purely antisocial reasons, and now people do it for social acceptance. I miss the individualism.

When I was a kid growing up in the '60s, music was an outlet for enlightenment, frustration, rebellion. It was more about individualism. Today it's just like a big business.

Paradoxical as it may seem, men and women who are free to pursue individualism and material wealth turn out to be the most compassionate of all.

Certainly, in Italy, nobody takes light for granted.

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

Individualism regards man-every man-as an independent, sovereign entity who possesses an inalienable right to his own life, a right derived from his nature as a rational being.

American individualism, much celebrated and cherished, has developed without its essential corrective, which is belonging.

The intellectually sophisticated person is indifferent to all genuine individuality, because relationships and reactions result from it which cannot be exhausted with logical operations.

We are not on the way to greater individualism, but are becoming an increasingly manipulated mass civilization.

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

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

Standardization of our educational systems [which includes testing]is apt to stamp out individualism and defeat the very ends of education by leveling the product down rather than up.

Many of those engaged in a lemming-like march to the sea are proud of their individualism.

Art = a mad search for individualism.

The function of the society is to cultivate the individual. It is not the function of the individual to support society.

I have always found it quaint and rather touching that there is a movement [Libertarians] in the US that thinks Americans are not yet selfish enough.

The greatest question of our time is not communism vs. individualism, not Europe vs. America, not even the East vs. the West; it is whether men can bear to live without God.

When three liberals get together they form a new party; that is their idea of individualism. They never join a bowling club without introducing as part of the 'agenda' an 'amendment of the statutes.

The Public provides freedom...Individualism begins after the roads are built, after individualists have had an education, after medical research has cured their diseases.

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

To be a mother is a great treasure. Mothers, in their unconditional and sacrificial love for their children, are the antidote to individualism; they are the greatest enemies against war.

In Italy, the Milanese are well organized but follow bourgeois taste. They adhere to certain codes of elegance, but not to individualism.

I'm a daughter of the middle class with a strong sense of social mobility and individualism, like the waves of immigrants, like my Spanish grandparents, who made Argentina.

Italy is a geographical expression.

You're in a horse race but you're thinking like a sheep. Sheep don't win horse races.

The best art is about individualism, free self-expression and realising a unique, imaginative perspective- A true artist takes no notice whatever of the public. The public are to him non-existent.

I got the idea [for Anthem's theme] in my school days, in Soviet Russia, when I heard all the vicious attacks on individualism, and asked myself what the world would be like if men lost the word 'I.'

The [classical] liberal, of course, does not deny that there are some superior people -- he is not an egalitarian -- but he denies that anyone has authority to decide who these superior people are.

Free-market capitalism is a network of free and voluntary exchanges in which producers work, produce, and exchange their products for the products of others through prices voluntarily arrived at.

More and more, when faced with the world of men, the only reaction is one of individualism. Man alone is an end unto himself. Everything one tries to do for the common good ends in failure.

The anarchist painter is not the one who will create anarchist pictures, but the one who will fight with all his individuality against official conventions.

Our emotional symptoms are precious sources of life and individuality.

Good and just society is neither the thesis of capitalism nor the antithesis of communism, but a socially conscious democracy which reconciles the truths of individualism and collectivism.

It's weird not to be weird.

I don't believe in that kind of American John Wayne individualism where people pull themselves up by their bootstraps. Someone changed your diapers. And if that's the case, you ain't self-made.