Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Comment on this quote Share via Email Print this Page [21-40] of 315 Individualism quotesIndividualism QuotesIndividualism Previous 20 quotes Next 20 quotes Without free speech no search for truth is possible... no discovery of truth is useful. Better a thousand fold abuse of free speech than denial of free speech. The abuse dies in a day, but the denial slays the life of the people.~ Charles Bradlaugh 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 ...~ Nathaniel Branden Individualism is at once an ethical-psychological concept and an ethical-political one. As an ethical-psychological concept, individualism holds that a human being should think and judge independently, respecting nothing more than the sovereignty of his or her mind; thus, it is intimately connected with the concept of autonomy. As an ethical-political concept, individualism upholds the supremacy of individual rights ...~ Nathaniel Branden If there is a bedrock principle of the First Amendment, it is that the government may not prohibit the expression of an idea simply because society finds the idea itself offensive or disagreeable.~ Justice William J. Brennan People take different roads seeking fulfillment & happiness. Just because they're not on your road doesn't mean they've gotten lost.~ H. Jackson Brown, Jr. There exists a “fear of freedom” of selfhood, which makes people want to submerge themselves in the mass and confession is one of the obvious means by which they can do so, for thereby they lose those traits which cause them to feel separate.~ James A. C. Brown Freedom is poetry, taking liberties with words, breaking the rules of normal speech, violating common sense.~ Norman O. Brown It is proof of a base and low mind for one to wish to think with the masses or majority, merely because the majority is the majority. Truth does not change because it is, or is not, believed by a majority of the people.~ Giordano Bruno Individualism, the love of enterprise, and the pride in personal freedom, have been deemed by Americans not only as their choicest, but their peculiar and exclusive possessions.~ James Bryce None who have always been free can understand the terrible fascinating power of the hope of freedom to those who are not free.~ Pearl S. Buck All men have equal rights, but not to equal things.~ Edmund Burke Toleration is good for all, or it is good for none.~ Edmund Burke He that complies against his will, Is of his own opinion still.~ Samuel Butler We are of course a nation of differences. Those differences don’t make us weak. They’re the source of our strength.~ Jimmy Carter The revolt against individualism naturally calls artists severely to account, because the artist is of all men the most individual; those who were not have been long forgotten.~ Willa Cather Once we start to worry too often and too deeply about what certain individuals and what certain groups think about us, then we might start selling our souls for the sake of expediency.~ Otis Chandler Censorship is never over for those who have experienced it. It is a brand on the imagination that affects the individual who has suffered it, forever.~ Noam Chomsky We must stop thinking of the individual and start thinking about what is best for society.~ Hillary Clinton Small groups or communities may be far more oppressive to the individual than larger ones. Men are in many ways freer in large cities than in small villages.~ Morris R. Cohen A people are free in proportion as they form their own opinions.~ Samuel Taylor Coleridge Previous 20 quotes Next 20 quotes Share on Facebook Tweet Email Print