Individualism Quotations

No matter where I've been overseas, the food stinks, except in Italy.

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

Communism is a monopolistic system, economically and politically. The system suppresses individual initiative, and the 21st century is all about individualism and freedom. The development of technology supported these directions.

If our dreams were more regular, more connected, more stable, they would also have more practical importance for us.

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

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

It is more difficult to designate this form of conation on its practical side by a satisfactory name.

The best thing you've got going for you is individuality.

What's natural and right is to go with the energy of how it all has to work together. What's natural and right is interconnectedness, not individualism. What is natural and right is respect for the system, not killing the system. What's natural and right is love.

Certainly, in Italy, nobody takes light for granted.

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.

Technologies tend to undermine community and encourage individualism.

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

Punk has always been about doing things your own way. What it represents for me is ultimate freedom and a sense of individuality.

The older I get, the more individuality I find in animals and the less I find in humans.

Italy and Spain really are not my countries.

In bourgeois society capital is independent and has individuality, while the living person is dependent and has no individuality.

It is just as important that business keep out of government as that government keep out of business.

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

Communism didn't work because people weren't ready for it, it was corrupt, and because it squelched individualism.

In Italy the artist is a god. Now if the artist is a god, the scientist is likewise a god.

Italy is a divided country without a center.

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

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

I live in Italy. I visit my family in Switzerland.

The most practical kind of politics is the politics of decency.

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

In spite of his practical ability, some of his experience had petrified into maxims and quotations.

I don't envisage collectivism. There is no such animal, it is always individualism, sometimes the rest vote and sometimes they do not, and if they do they do and if they do not they do not.

If the 19th [century] was the century of the individual (liberalism means individualism), you may consider that this is the "collective" century, and therefore the century of the state.

Against individualism, the Fascist conception is for the State ... Liberalism denied the State in the interests of the particular individual; Fascism reaffirms the State as the true reality of the individual.

The social problem of the twentieth century is whether civilized nations can restore themselves to sanity after their nineteenth-century aberrations of individualism and capitalism.

The distinctive principle of Western social philosophy is individualism.

Progressivism is usually seen as a stepping back from individualism into a progressive community.

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.

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

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

I appreciate individualism.

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.

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.

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.

But society has now fairly got the better of individuality; and the danger which threatens human nature is not the excess, but the deficiency, of personal Impulses and preferences.

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

We're going to take things away from you on behalf of the common good.

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

The chief safeguard of personal freedom in a democratic society is the anarchy and disorder of capitalist individualism.

There is no individualism in Eastern or oral cultures.

The 19th century was the age of Individualism the 20th and 21st are the ages of Socialism.

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

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

Art = a mad search for individualism.

Ayn Rand more than anyone else did a fantastic job of explaining the morality of capitalism, the morality of individualism.

We talk much more about individualism and liberty than our ancestors. But as so often happens, when anything becomes conscious, the consciousness is compensatory for absence in practice.

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 ...

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.

Who would you be but who you are?

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

The day of combination is here to stay. Individualism has gone, never to return.

At the heart of excessive individualism is a broken heart

Individualism is bad for business - though absolutely necessary for freedom, progressive knowledge, and any possible interface with the transcendent.

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.

I really like individualism based on truth.

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

Have a chance to create a society to match its scenery.

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

Like all pure creatures, cats are practical.

The fight we are in here, make no mistake about it, is a fight of individualism versus collectivism.

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

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

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

Individualism is what makes cooperation worth living.

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.

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

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

Progress in thought is the assertion of individualism against authority.

Unrestricted individualism is the law of the beast of the jungle.

It's weird not to be weird.

An individual is an encloser. Time and space, liberty and necessity, truth and thought, are left at large no longer.

All public facts are to be individualized, all private facts are to be generalized.

Now every one must do after his kind, be he asp or angel, and these must.

In daily life what distinguishes the master is the using those materials he has, instead of looking about for what are more renowned, or what others have used well.

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