Individualism Quotes
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Each man is an island unto himself. But though a sea of difference may divide us, an entire world of commonality lies beneath.
— James Rozoff
And the wind shall say: 'Here were decent Godless people:Their only monument the asphalt road
And a thousand lost golf balls. — T. S. Eliot
At the heart of excessive individualism is a broken heart
— Robert Holden
The enemies of intellectual liberty always try to present their case as a plea for discipline versus individualism.
— George Orwell
It is not as late as you think. It is merely early - in the age of the rebirth of individualism.
— Ayn Rand
Abundance is rooted in community, not individualism. Abundance is what is before our eyes, but we cannot see when we are blinded by greed.
— Terry Tempest Williams
Individualism turns a band into a society. Collectivism turns society into a mob.
— Jakub Bozydar Wisniewski
Jesus did not stand as a prophet and utter judgements; wherever He went the unerring directness of His presence located men.
— Oswald Chambers
Art = a mad search for individualism.
— Paul Gauguin
I find it difficult to converse with robots.....Don't be afraid to be an independent thinker.
— Just Jewel
Remember always that you not only have the right to be an individual you have an obligation to be one.
— Eleanor Roosevelt
When the purge of teacher individualism is unrestrained, eccentricity, initiative and individuality become the casualties.
— Andy Hargreaves
Nobody can be exactly like me. Sometimes even I have trouble doing it.
— Tallulah Bankhead
He knew most men only heard what they wanted to hear, and he had no desire to be like most men.
— Dan Groat
Perhaps, there is no such person who can be called truly free, but only those who can be deemed so by comparison.
— Ashim Shanker
And even when they refuse to listen, I'll keep talking anyway, hoping on a slim chance that the things inside my head are worth something to someone.
— Nadege Richards
Totalitarianism begins with using the word "we" without every I's permission.
— Jakub Bozydar Wisniewski
In Italy, the Milanese are well organized but follow bourgeois taste. They adhere to certain codes of elegance, but not to individualism.
— Christian Lacroix
Technologies tend to undermine community and encourage individualism.
— Henry Mintzberg
Phrases like 'the team spirit' are always employed to cut across individualism, love and personal loyalties.
— Muriel Spark
You have to be a light to yourself in a world that is utterly becoming dark.
— Jiddu Krishnamurti
When there is no room for individualism in ballparks, then there will be no room for individualism in life.
— Bill Veeck
The Revolution introduced me to art, and in turn, art introduced me to the Revolution!
— Albert Einstein
I'm very practical. What I'm reaching for is individualism for women.
— Kathleen Turner
The day of combination is here to stay. Individualism has gone, never to return.
— John D. Rockefeller
Being yourself in a world which wants you to be someone else is the highest possible attainment.
— Bryant McGill
Unrestricted individualism is the law of the beast of the jungle.
— Mahatma Gandhi
The music played, always pointing to the light, to the way out, or the way in, to individualism,
— Morrissey
Hobbesian individualism;
— Clive Thompson
Perhaps, if one wishes to remain an individual in the midst of the teeming multitudes, one must make oneself grotesque.
— Salman Rushdie
The pursuit of full humanity, however, cannot be carried out in isolation or individualism, but only in fellowship and solidarity;
— Paulo Freire
At a time when individualism is becoming an endangered species, jazz represents a celebration of the individual.
— Ellis Marsalis Jr.
The chief safeguard of personal freedom in a democratic society is the anarchy and disorder of capitalist individualism.
— Christopher Dawson
Individual identities and national destines were shaped by the tripod of history, geography, and philosophy.
— Patrick Mendis
When we respect our humanity, we can embrace our diversity.
— Liza M. Wiemer
No state, no government exists. What does in fact exist is a man, or a few men, in power over many men.
— Rose Wilder Lane
The distinctive principle of Western social philosophy is individualism.
— Ludwig Von Mises
To be a socialist is to submit the I to the thou; socialism is sacrificing the individual to the whole.
— Joseph Goebbels
Liberty in Islam is the liberty to be a Muslim, democracy likewise, individualism likewise.
— James Buchan
Now every one must do after his kind, be he asp or angel, and these must.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
I say let the world go to hell, but I should always have my tea.
— Fyodor Dostoyevsky
The Ascension is actually the birth of the Inner You expressed as the spiritual individualism of the inner particle state.
— Stuart Wilde
The only common good is the common liberty to pursue individual goods.
— Jakub Bozydar Wisniewski
We are in a period of such individualism that one no longer speaks of disciples; one speaks of thieves.
— Jean Cocteau
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.
— Christopher Hitchens
This sort of, arrogant individualism which imagines each new generation can somehow create the world afresh.
— Helen Fielding
you always write about individualism vs. community, and that you see independence as stupidity and instead celebrate dependency.
— Barbara Kingsolver
Individualism is going around these days in uniform, handing out the party line on individualism.
— Wendell Berry
Socialism, or communism as it is sometimes called, is merely a secular religion, where the State becomes a god.
— Stefan Molyneux
At his best, Obama promised to work with Republicans to reduce the deficit in a way that honors both individualism and community.
— Ron Fournier
Conformity is a cage that confines our ability to think. It is a cage that hinders growth and deters individualism
— Yahya Mohamed
Our individualism has always been bound by a set of communal values, the glue upon which every healthy society depends.
— Barack Obama
Beneath the privatization of worship is the ever-present individualism of our culture.
— Robert E. Webber
The hermit is he who needs a friend, and in the absence of a community has befriended himself.
— Anthony Marais
I knew I was alone in a way that no earthling has ever been before.
— Michael Collins
...for recent sociologists the dark secret at the heart of modern individualism is its failure as a mode of life...
— Lee Patterson
I believe in Individualism. Find out what makes you unique and develop it. Don't run with the herd. Set yourself apart so you can stand out.
— Monica Koldyke Miller
American individualism, much celebrated and cherished, has developed without its essential corrective, which is belonging.
— Wallace Stegner
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.
— Lawrence B. Lindsey
Men will not accept truth at the hands of their enemies, and truth is seldom offered to them by their friends
— Alexis De Tocqueville
The 19th century was the age of Individualism; the 20th and 21st are the ages of Socialism.
— Francis Parker Yockey
The first duty of a man is to think for himself
— Jose Marti
You're in a horse race but you're thinking like a sheep. Sheep don't win horse races.
— Jeannette Walls
As we seek to eliminate individualism in teaching, we should not eradicate individuality with it.
— Andy Hargreaves
Here beyond men's judgments all covenants were brittle.
— Cormac McCarthy
A whole nation cannot rise above itself.
— Alexis De Tocqueville
To vigorous men intimacy is a matter of shame--and something precious.
— Friedrich Nietzsche
Society has parted man from man, neglectful of the universal heart.
— William Wordsworth
The Open Road goes to the used-car lot.
— Louis Simpson
All rational action is in the first place individual action. Only the individual thinks. Only the individual reasons. Only the individual acts.
— Ludwig Von Mises
Man is an end in himself.
— Ayn Rand
The world each person creates for himself is a distinctive world, not the same world others occupy.
— Dean C. Barnlund
The individual benefits as an individual from his ability to deny the truth even though society as a whole, of which he is a part, suffers.
— Garrett Hardin
The uniqueness of every soul is not a theme that our current culture, obsessed with group identities, cares to assert.
— Dean Koontz
Non-conformism is the major, perhaps the only, sin of our time.
— Robert M. Lindner
We are not on the way to greater individualism, but are becoming an increasingly manipulated mass civilization.
— Erich Fromm
Large corporations welcome innovation and individualism in the same way the dinosaurs welcomed large meteors.
— Scott Adams
Our culture places a very high premium on self-expression, but is relatively disinterested in producing "selves" that are worth expressing.
— Matthew Kelly
