The inside story on a man was that if he wanted to be…

I am a strong individualist by personal habit, inheritance, and conviction; but it is a mere matter of common sense to recognize that the…

— Theodore Roosevelt

It is true that the virtues which are less esteemed and practiced now--independence, self-reliance, and the willingness to bear risks, the readiness to back…

— Friedrich August von Hayek

I'm glad [Ornette Coleman] is such an individualist. I like the firmness of thought and purpose that goes into what he's doing, even though…

— Paul Desmond

My father was an individualist, and I took after him. At school, however, one is forced to be gregarious. I didn't resent this, but…

— Christopher Robin Milne

Do not make the mistake of the ignorant who think that an individualist is a man who says: “I’ll do as I please at…

— Ayn Rand

I don't feel the individualist anarchists, particularly in the American tradition, including the Transcendental tradition of New England, in any way deserve the derogatory…

— Murray Bookchin

Right now it is a terrible thing to be a rugged individualist; but we don't know what else to be except a feeble nonentity.

— Isabel Paterson

To be a genuine individualist requires a great deal of strength and courage. It is never easy to chart new territory, to cross new…

— Toller Cranston

A Conformist is a man who declares, "It's true because others believe it" - but an Individualist is NOT a man who declares, "It's…

— Ayn Rand

“On Individualism: "Because I say Republicans are stupid, and hold that liberty, equality, and fraternity are exploded bubbles, does not make me a socialist,"…

— Jack London

“The adventurer, by minimum definition, is an individualist. The life of adventure is an unsocial game; therefore in direct contrast with the married, supported…

— William Bolitho

“mold—William Henry Yale also subscribed to Roosevelt’s notions of the ideal American man and of the dangers of “over-civilization,” code for effeminacy. The true…

— Scott Anderson

“Whereas, in the west, individuality and drive are considered positive qualities, they are not seen the same way, in Japan. In that country, if…

— Alexei Maxim Russell

If anarcho-communism served to regiment the population in the name of libertarian unity, if it served in any way through collectivist measures to deny…

— Murray Bookchin

Every painter must traverse for himself that distance from Paris to Aix (where Paul Cézanne worked a lot, fh) or from Venice to Toledo…

— Marsden Hartley