Individualism Quotes

In Jefferson's mind democracy was tantamount to extreme individualism.

We are in a period of such individualism that one no longer speaks of disciples; one speaks of thieves.

For myself, I do not now know in any concrete human terms wherein my individuality consists. In my present human form of consciousness I simply cannot tell.

I'm very practical. What I'm reaching for is individualism for women

In 1917 - as we have seen, - Italy suffered a great reverse, losing 200,000 soldiers and immense supplies.

The philosophy commonly called individualism is a philosophy of social cooperation and the progressive intensification of the social nexus.

The policy of seeking values from human beings by means of force, when practiced by an individual, is called crime. When practiced by a government, it is called statism.

Italy is definitely where I feel most at home, or alternatively, living in total wilderness, in the bush in Australia.

Individualism has really the higher aim. Modern morality consists in accepting the standard of one's age.

Non-conformism is the major, perhaps the only, sin of our time.

Those nations of artists, finding their own individualism, and kind of standing against the world: to me that's the ultimate nightmare. I want to get lost and diffused in the world.

perhaps, if one wishes to remain an individual in the midst of the teeming multitudes, one must make oneself grotesque.

Hollywood cools, and when it cools you have to go to where the work is. I ran off to Italy to do spaghetti westerns.

I really like individualism based on truth.

If a life can have a 'theme-song' - and I believe every worthwhile one has - mine is [best] expressed in one word: Individualism.

The two great cultural and political currents of Italy have always only been concerned with the masses.

When I compare myself, my being-myself, with anything else whatever, all things alike, all in the same degree, rebuff me with blank unlikeness.

When we've finished the current tour I'm going to go back to Italy and see if I can do some more writing.

Competitive individualism militates against the experience of community, and that lack of community is a centrally important factor in contemporaneous anxiety.

Large corporations welcome innovation and individualism in the same way the dinosaurs welcomed large meteors.

Much of the discussion about socialism and individualism is entirely pointless, because of failure to agree on terminology.

I really like individualism based on truth. That's something I try to think about. What do I actually think about that, what do I actually feel right now? As opposed what should I feel.

No one should part with their individuality and become that of another.

I took a bunch of pictures. You can see 'em on my MySpace page, along with my favorite songs and movies and things that other people have created but that I use to express my individualism.

We can just as little afford to follow the doctrinaires of an extreme individualism as the doctrinaires of an extreme socialism.

Here beyond men's judgments all covenants were brittle.

Who would you be but who you are?

We must each achieve greater individual consciousness and self-knowledge, and project mindful kindness toward everything and everyone.

Being yourself in a world which wants you to be someone else is the highest possible attainment.

In America, you have this kind of individualism and in the West, essentially, you have this individualism - this idea of my own personal fulfillment.

As we seek to eliminate individualism in teaching, we should not eradicate individuality with it.

When the purge of teacher individualism is unrestrained, eccentricity, initiative and individuality become the casualties.

A man's rights are not violated by a private individual's refusal to deal with him.

Collectivism, as an intellectual power and a moral ideal, is dead. But freedom and individualism, and their political expression, capitalism, have not yet been discovered.

It is not as late as you think. It is merely early - in the age of the rebirth of individualism.

When there is no room for individualism in ballparks, then there will be no room for individualism in life.

I have had the problem of seeing my male model go to Italy and... stay there.

Individualism? Narcissism? Of course. It is my strongest tendency, the only intentional constancy [fidelity] I am capable of.... Besides, I am lying; I scatter myself too much for that.

The Court is perhaps one of the last citadels of jealously preserved individualism. For the most part, we function as nine, small independent law firms.

I should like [people] to like the purely individual thing in themselves, which makes them act in singleness. and They only like to do the collective thing.

Patriotism is the opposite of selfish individualism.

a society driven mainly by selfish individualism has all the potential for sustainability of a collection of angry scorpions in a bottle.

The individual couldn't find any attention in Italy.

I appreciate individualism.

I was also fortunate that I was raised in a part of the world, West Texas, where individualism is strong.

Baseball exemplifies a tension in the American mind, the constant pull between our atomistic individualism and our yearning for community.

Technologies tend to undermine community and encourage individualism.

Our social and economic system cannot march toward better days unless it is inspired by things of the Spirit. It is here that the higher purposes of individualism must find their sustenance.

During my first month in Italy I lived a nomadic life.

Liberty in Islam is the liberty to be a Muslim, democracy likewise, individualism likewise.