Quotes about Individualism

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The word "We" is as lime poured over men, which sets and hardens to stone, and crushes all beneath it, and that which is — Ayn Rand, Anthem
But mostly because he could be himself - never needing to bend. — Niki Alling, The Straight Rainbow
But whenever one meets modern thinkers (as one often does) progressing towards a madhouse, one always finds, on inquiry, — G.K. Chesterton, Alarms and Discursions
The argument for collectivism is simple if false; it is an immediate emotional argument. The argument for individualism — Milton Friedman
For the recognition of private property has really harmed Individualism, and obscured it, by confusing a man with what h — Oscar Wilde, The Soul of Man Under Socialism
He knew most men only heard what they wanted to hear, and he had no desire to be like most men. — Dan Groat, A Punctual Paymaster
Even in the act of fleeing modern ideologies, however, literary theory reveals its often unconscious complicity with the — Terry Eagleton, Literary Theory: An Introduction
We are the anarchists your parents warned you about. — Suzy Kassem, Rise Up and Salute the Sun: The Writings of Suzy Kassem
At the same time, we held back. Because she was different. Different. We had no one to compare her to, no one to measure — Jerry Spinelli, Stargirl
To vigorous men intimacy is a matter of shame--and something precious. — Friedrich Nietzsche, Beyond Good and Evil
Golden sees parental uninterest in collective solutions as part of a larger “decline in the social contract”… "As a scho — Emily Matchar, Homeward Bound: Why Women are Embracing the New Domesticity
[Judith Warner:] Our neurotic quest to perfect the mechanics of mothering can be interpreted as an effort to do on an in — Emily Matchar, Homeward Bound: Why Women are Embracing the New Domesticity
And yet it was a fact that if Syme grasped, even for three seconds, the nature of his, Winston's, secret opinions, he wo — George Orwell, 1984
Gen. Matthew Ridgeway "intended not to impose his will on his men, but to allow the men under him to find something in t — David Halberstam, The Coldest Winter: America and the Korean War
The Kantian imperative to have the courage to think for oneself has involved a contemptuous disregard for the resources — Terry Eagleton, Reason, Faith, and Revolution: Reflections on the God Debate
There is no life without the conditions of life that variably sustain life, and those conditions are pervasively social, — Judith Butler, Frames of War: When Is Life Grievable?
The essence of diversity is the individual's experience of it. Diversity is about personalised shades of experience eman — Camila Batmanghelidjh, Anti-Discriminatory Practice in Counselling and Psychotherapy
The same touchy sense of personal honor that is at the root of Achilles' wrath still governs relations between man and m — Bernard Knox, The Oldest Dead White European Males & Other Reflections on the Classics