Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Comment on this quote Share via Email Print this Page [21-30] of 30 Individualist quotesIndividualist QuotesIndividualist Previous 20 quotes ...there is no such entity as 'the public' - since the public is merely a number of individuals - the idea that 'the public interest' supersedes private interests and rights can have but one meaning: that the interests and rights of some individuals take precedence over the interests and rights of others.~ Ayn Rand There is nothing to take a man's freedom away from him, save other men. To be free, a man must be free of his brothers.~ Ayn Rand Some truths need to be learned from the inside.~ Eric Schaub The uniform, constant, and uninterrupted effort of every man to better his condition . . . is frequently powerful enough to maintain the natural progress of things toward improvement, in spite of the extravagance of government, and of the greatest errors of administration.~ Adam Smith The natural effort of every individual to better his own condition, when suffered to exert itself with freedom and security is so powerful a principle that it is alone, and without any assistance, not only capable of carrying on the society to wealth and prosperity, but of surmounting a hundred impertinent obstructions with which the folly of human laws too often incumbers its operations; though the effect of these obstructions is always more or less either to encroach upon its freedom, or to diminish its security. ~ Adam Smith I am not an Athenian or a Greek, I am a citizen of the world.~ Socrates I make my own time. I make my own terms. I cannot see how God or Nature can ever get the start of me.~ Henry David Thoreau I have never let my schooling interfere with my education.~ Mark Twain Each must for himself alone decide what is right and what is wrong, and which course is patriotic and which isn’t. You cannot shirk this and be a man. To decide against your convictions is to be an unqualified and inexcusable traitor, both to yourself and to your country, let man label you as they may. If you alone of all the nation shall decide one way, and that way be the right way according to your convictions of the right, you have done your duty by yourself and by your country- hold up your head! You have nothing to be ashamed of.~ Mark Twain The struggle for freedom ... is not the struggle of the many against the few, but of minorities -- sometimes of a minority of but one man -- against the majority.~ Ludwig von Mises Previous 20 quotes Share on Facebook Tweet Email Print