The present dominant values (xenophilia, cosmopolitanism, narcissistic individualism, humanitarianism, bourgeois economism, hedonism, homophilia, permissivenes, etc.) are actually anti-values - values of devirilising… — Guillaume Faye Copy Share Image
The surest defense against Evil is extreme individualism, originality of thinking, whimsicality, even - if you will - eccentricity. That is, something… — Joseph Brodsky Copy Share Image
The individualism of American life, to our glory and despair, creates anger and encourages its release; for when everything is possible, limitations… — Carol Tavris Copy Share Image
“It is feasible and easy everywhere to undermine administrative power and, in fact, it has been drastically weakened in all Western countries.… — Aleksandr I. Solzhenitsyn Copy Share Image
“When the government designates as punishable all play of mind against the state, the moderate liberals come and opine that fun, satire,… — Max Stirner Copy Share Image
Pseudo-modernists pursue individual style because they know they cannot make a name without it; but if they had lived in the eighteenth… — Laura Riding Copy Share Image
“Insist on yourself; never imitate. Your own gift you can present every moment with the cumulative force of a whole life's cultivation;… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Part of the power of Emerson's individualism is his insistence, at crucial moments, that individualism does not mean isolation or self-sufficiency. This… — Robert D. Richardson Copy Share Image
“He had always been a middle-of-the-road sort. He had never submitted word for word to anyone's command, but neither had he passionately… — Natsume Sōseki Copy Share Image
“An individual is a complex, indefinable object. And so only the individual possesses something that can without lying be called existence. As… — Han Ryner Copy Share Image
“My conduct with my friends is motivated: each being is, I believe, incapable on his own, of going to the end of… — Georges Bataille Copy Share Image
She smiled. She knew she was dying. But it did not matter any longer. She had known something which no human words… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
When the war closed we were challenged with a peace-time choice between the American system of rugged individualism and a European philosophy… — Herbert Hoover Copy Share Image
This right to life, this right to liberty, and this right to pursue one's happiness is unabashedly individualistic, without in the slightest… — Tibor R. Machan Copy Share Image
In our age of individualism, we see computers as ways through which we can express our individuality. But the truth is that… — Adam Curtis Copy Share Image
If men want to oppose war, it is statism that they must oppose. So long as they hold the tribal notion that… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
“The truth is, one who seeks to achieve freedom by petitioning those in power to give it to him has already failed,… — Larken Rose Copy Share Image
In one and the same human being there are cognitions that, however utterly dissimilar they are, yet have one and the same… — Franz Kafka Copy Share Image
Cultivating individualism is the way to bring about true multiculturalism, because healthy individuals cannot be broken down into their component parts, their… — Norah Vincent Copy Share Image
Learn how to follow the will of God, the reason why sometimes we fail as human being is because we tend to… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
In a way, writing is an incredible act of individualism, producing your language, and yet to use it from the heart of… — Arundhati Roy Copy Share Image
Because of social pressure, individualism is rejected by most people in favor of conformity. Thus the individual relies mainly upon the actions… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
There's a lot to love about America - freedom, the melting pot of diversity, individualism - all attractive concepts, especially to an… — Laurie Helgoe Copy Share Image
The argument for collectivism is simple if false; it is an immediate emotional argument. The argument for individualism is subtle and sophisticated;… — Milton Friedman Copy Share Image
Who among us will celebrate Christmas correctly? Whoever finally lays down all power, l honor, all reputation, all vanity, all arrogance, all… — Dietrich Bonhoeffer Copy Share Image
America is still a frontier country of wide open spaces. Our closeness to nature is one reason why our problem is not… — Camille Paglia Copy Share Image
All men, in the abstract, are just and good; what hinders them, in the particular, is, the momentary predominance of the finite… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Call yourself "Colonel" and declare that your fortune was left to you by Dutch burghers from the seventeenth century. Now you're a… — Luc Sante Copy Share Image
It is the system of nationalist individualism that has to go…We are living in the end of the sovereign states…In the great… — H. G. Wells Copy Share Image
A child who does not think about what happens around him and is content with living without wondering whether he lives honestly… — Jose Marti Copy Share Image
A spiritual sensibility encourages us to see ourselves as part of the fundamental unity of all being. If the thrust of the… — Michael Lerner Copy Share Image
“Collectivizing risk and considering the community as a whole rather than the individual was a form of “communism,” but the practice paradoxically… — Richard White Copy Share Image
Instructing in cures, therapists always recommend that "each case be individualized." If this advice is followed, one becomes persuaded that those means… — Anton Chekhov Copy Share Image
What is termed Sin is an essential element of progress. Without it the world would stagnate, or grow old, or become colorless.… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
“Your hard-won triumphs can be wholly negated if you live in a climate where your victories are seen as threatening, incorrect, distasteful,… — Caitlin Moran Copy Share Image
I do preach the idea of individualism as in not adapting any kind of style or model other than that one of… — Adamo Macri Copy Share Image
The tendencies of the times favor the idea of self-government, and leave the individual, for all code, to the rewards and penalties… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
So-called Individualism is the social and economic laissez-faire: the exploitation of the masses by the classes by means of legal trickery, spiritual… — Emma Goldman Copy Share Image
We love the indomitable bellicose patriotism that sets you apart; we love the national pride that guides your muscularly courageous race; we… — Filippo Tommaso Marinetti Copy Share Image
The individualism of current economic theory is manifest in the purely self-interested behaviour it generally assumes. It has no real place for… — Herman E. Daly Copy Share Image
