Individualism Quotes

It is only you, treading in the blessed path of peace and freedom, who can bring about the true regeneration of society, and with it the true happiness of your own lives.

The only common good is the common liberty to pursue individual goods.

Collectivists see the world the way Mr. Magoo did—as one big blur. They homogenize people in a communal blender, sacrificing the discrete features that make us who we are.

Every one is expected to look out for himself here. I fancy that there would be very little rising if men were expected to rise for the sake of others, in America.

In short, self-rule is workable only when a people are self-sufficient enough to reject the hierarchic system as it stands.

That's not in my yard.

You are you. You are not a label. As an individual you have a unique place in my heart and mind.

And the wind shall say: 'Here were decent Godless people:Their only monument the asphalt roadAnd a thousand lost golf balls.

Here is the paradox of it: the more of an individual you become the more you realize we are interrelated, that success of one requires the success of all.

If you look at every flower individually, they look quite miserable. Put them together in a vase and they become a bouquet and that's quite attractive. I think about our community often in that way

I'm not here to be small, to compare, to judge (myself or you), to fit in or to be perfect. I'm here to grow, to learn, to love, to be human.

when you are surrounded by sheep then it is easy to become one yourself.

The 20th Century proved that there is nothing more dangerous to the health of ethnic minority communities than big government.

Typography fostered the modern idea of individuality, but it destroyed the medieval sense of community and integration

What is a drop of rain, compared to the storm? What is a thought, compared to the mind? Our unity is full of wonder which your tiny individualism cannot even conceive.

Each man is an island unto himself. But though a sea of difference may divide us, an entire world of commonality lies beneath.

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

With them the individual counted for nothing. No one was irreplaceable, because they drew no distinction between one man and another... In this community there was harmony, but no love.

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

But mostly because he could be himself - never needing to bend.

He knew most men only heard what they wanted to hear, and he had no desire to be like most men.

We are the anarchists your parents warned you about.

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