perhaps, if one wishes to remain an individual in the midst of the teeming multitudes, one must make oneself grotesque. — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
It is open to question whether the highly individualized characters we find in Shakespeare are perhaps not detrimental to the dramatic effect.… — Franz Grillparzer Copy Share Image
The straight line is godless and immoral. The straight line is not a creative line, it is a duplicating line, an imitating… — Friedensreich Hundertwasser Copy Share Image
As long as man remains an inquiring animal, there can never be a complete unanimity in our fundamental beliefs. The more diverse… — Arthur Keith Copy Share Image
The ethic of liberal individualism has so deeply permeated the psyches of blacks... of all classes that we have little support for… — bell hooks Copy Share Image
“this sort of, arrogant individualism which imagines each new generation can somehow create the world afresh.” — Helen Fielding Copy Share Image
Jeremy Corbyn and John McDonnell have made no secret of their desire to stamp out individualism and enterprise. — Liz Truss Copy Share Image
“And the wind shall say: 'Here were decent Godless people: Their only monument the asphalt road And a thousand lost golf balls.” — T S Eliot Copy Share Image
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… — Nathaniel Branden Copy Share Image
The real Jack Johnson was both more and less than those who loved or those who hated him ever knew. He embodied… — Geoffrey Ward Copy Share Image
Individualism is the self-affirmation of the individual self as individual self without regard to its participation in its world. As such it… — Paul Tillich Copy Share Image
Never before has the seductive market way of life held such sway in nearly every sphere of American life. This marketing way… — Cornel West Copy Share Image
The Jacksonian era is generally talked about in terms of individualism, and the development of free market capitalism, and Victorian prudery. It… — Christine Jennings Copy Share Image
Each man, if he attempts to join himself to others, is on all sides cramped and diminished of his proportion; and the… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
The globalists, the Democrats, the collectivists, hate anybody who's conservative, anybody that believes in the individual. And, the fact is, those people… — Alex Jones Copy Share Image
“You have to be taught to recognize and care about differences, you have to be instructed who you really are; you have… — Aleksandar Hemon Copy Share Image
The three values which men held for centuries and which have now collapsed are: mysticism, collectivism, altruism. Mysticism - as a cultural… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
“When distinction of any kind, even intellectual distinction, is somehow resented as a betrayal of the American spirit of equal opportunity for… — Harold Edmund Stearns Copy Share Image
“When individuals combine in a joint effort to realize ends the have in common, the organizations, like the state, that they form… — F.A. Hayek Copy Share Image
“This wariness of authority reflected the most fundamental of all of Einstein’s moral principles: Freedom and individualism are necessary for creativity and… — Walter Isaacson Copy Share Image
“The argument was this: a civilization shackled to the strictures of excessive control on its populace, from choice of religion through to… — Steven Erikson Copy Share Image
“On Individualism: "Because I say Republicans are stupid, and hold that liberty, equality, and fraternity are exploded bubbles, does not make me… — Jack London Copy Share Image
Unlike Marxists, conservatives they don't want to control anything. We believe in individualism, self-reliance, rugged individualism, and we trust people that in… — Rush Limbaugh Copy Share Image
“[He] seemed to possess, beneath it all, an immutable sense of self-assurance, but in addition to that, the look of a man… — Ashim Shanker Copy Share Image
I've always said, rather glibly, that the message of my career has been about individualism, about getting to know yourself and taking… — Todd Rundgren Copy Share Image
Being single isn't a time to be looking for love. Use that time to work on yourself and grow as an individual. — Steve Copy Share Image
“The difference between being empowered and being strengthened is reliance. When that object which empowers you is removed your progress is mostly… — Inuk Bech Larsen Copy Share Image
It is not what talents or genius a man has, but how he is to his talents, that constitutes friendship and character.… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
At a time when individualism is becoming an endangered species, jazz represents a celebration of the individual. — Ellis Marsalis, Jr Copy Share Image
“It’s our nature to assume that we’re important, that we’re at the center of things. Maybe we’re not. Maybe…we’re just another animal.” — Aaron B. Powell Copy Share Image
There's a tipping point that happens with soccer in which you just kinda get it. I was drawn to it because the… — Bill Simmons Copy Share Image
“Would you believe, they insist on complete absence of individualism and that’s just what they relish! Not to be themselves, to be… — Fyodor Dostoyevsky Copy Share Image
Libertarianism, the political philosophy of rugged individualism, ought to hold a natural appeal to tolerant, anti-statist, free-trade conservatives who deplore the turn… — Jacob Weisberg Copy Share Image
The revelation of the secret of water will put an end to all manner of speculation or expediency and their excrescences, to… — Viktor Schauberger Copy Share Image
“A person who is truly cool is a work of art. And remember, original works of art cost exponentially higher than imitations.… — Suzy Kassem Copy Share Image
The flight from study and awareness is much too common in a world that throws too many confusing pictures to the individual.… — Joost Meerloo Copy Share Image
I have no right to call myself one who knows. I was one who seeks, and I still am, but I no… — Hermann Hesse Copy Share Image
It used to be the boast of free men that, so long as they kept within the bounds of the known law,… — Friedrich August von Hayek Copy Share Image
Collectivists would have you believe that individualism is merely another word for selfishness, because individualists oppose welfare and other forms of coercive… — G. Edward Griffin Copy Share Image
The unity of a nation's spirit and will are worth far more than the freedom of the spirit and will of an… — Adolf Hitler Copy Share Image