Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Comment on this quote Share via Email Print this Page [1-20] of 30 Individualist quotesIndividualist QuotesIndividualist Next 20 quotes Republicans don't know how to defend morally an individual's right to achieve wealth and to keep it, and that is why they fail. ... It's part and parcel with their ambivalence over the individualist heritage of the nation. ... One of the things that people have to understand is that the American Revolution was truly an epic revolution in the way individuals were perceived in relation to the rest of the society. Throughout history individuals had always been cogs in some machine; they'd always been something to be sacrificed for the king, the tribe, the gang, the chieftain, the society around them, the race, whatever, and the real revolution, in America especially, was a moral revolution. It was a moral revolution in that ... suddenly, with the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution, the individual, his life, his well-being, his property, his happiness became central to our values, and that is what really made America unique. People came here from all over the world to try to escape the kind of oppression they had and experienced in the past. They came here for freedom; they came here for self-expression and self-realization, and America offered them that kind of a place.~ Robert Bidinotto You have to ask yourself, 'Who owns me? Do I own myself or am I just another piece of government property?'~ Neal Boortz Democracy must be something more than two wolves and a sheep voting on what to have for dinner.~ James Bovard To be nobody but yourself -- in a world which is doing it's best, night and day, to make you like everybody else -- means to fight the hardest battle which any human being can fight, and never stop fighting.~ e. e. cummings No one is free who is not master of himself.~ Epictetus Freedom is just Chaos, with better lighting.~ Alan Dean Foster I know of no inquiry which the impulses of man suggests that is forbidden to the resolution of man to pursue.~ Margaret Fuller I love agitation and investigation and glory in defending unpopular truth against popular error.~ James A. Garfield The principle that the end justifies the means is in individualist ethics regarded as the denial of all morals. In collectivist ethics it becomes necessarily the supreme rule.~ Friedrich August von Hayek I have no respect for the passion of equality, which seems to me merely idealizing envy -- I don't disparage envy but I don't accept it as legitimately my master.~ Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. There never was an idea stated that woke men out of their stupid indifference but its originator was spoken of as a crank.~ Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr. We are reluctant to admit that we owe our liberties to men of a type that today we hate and fear -- unruly men, disturbers of the peace, men who resent and denounce what Whitman called 'the insolence of elected persons' -- in a word, free men. ~ Gerald W. Johnson College isn't the place to go for ideas.~ Helen Keller True individualists tend to be quite unobservant; it is the snob, the... sophisticate, the frightened conformist, who keeps a fascinated or worried eye on what is in the wind.~ Louis Kronenberger Collectivism is a form of anthropomorphism. It attempts to see a group of individuals as having a single identity similar to a person. ... Collectivism demands that the group be more important than the individual. It requires the individual to sacrifice himself for the alleged good of the group.~ Jeff Landauer The great appear great because we are on our knees: Let us rise.~ James Larkin It is the tragic story of the cultural crusader in a mass society that he cannot win, but that we would be lost without him.~ Paul F. Lazarsfeld If we expected self-reliance of family groups, if we expected hardiness and resilience and initiative on the part of individuals, and if we rewarded initiative instead of dependence on government, we would not only ameliorate many of the family-related social problems we see at present, but we would also reduce our vulnerability to terrorism. People who are hardy, resilient, and self reliant are a lot harder to terrorize.~ Bernard H. Levin Society honors its living conformists and its dead troublemakers.~ Mignon McLaughlin The writer is the Faust of modern society, the only surviving individualist in a mass age. To his orthodox contemporaries he seems a semi-madman.~ Boris Pasternak Next 20 quotes Share on Facebook Tweet Email Print