America was built on rugged individualism, and today that has evolved into a culture of narcissism. But God didn't create you to… — Rick Warren Copy Share Image
Philosophically, I believe that libertarianism - and the wider creed of sound individualism of which libertarianism is a part - must rest… — Murray Rothbard Copy Share Image
The reason I got involved in public service, by and large, if I had to credit one thinker, one person, it would… — Paul Ryan Copy Share Image
It's a family that's loaded with grudges and passion. We come from a long line of robbers and highwaymen in Italy, you… — Nicolas Cage Copy Share Image
I want every fan of Rand to hear [Polaha] say the classic Galt phrase: “I swear by my life and my love… — John Galt Copy Share Image
It so happens that America, according to all the polls that are out there, is pretty progressive. So you're not going to… — Adam McKay Copy Share Image
I've run into certain geniuses of individualism - they are very few and far between - who live their lives completely on… — David Duchovny Copy Share Image
If what is best in mankind, and what its progress depends on, manifests itself primarily in the individual and only secondarily in… — Louis J. Halle Copy Share Image
God's revelation... unmasks our illusions about ourselves. It exposes our pride, our individualism, our self-centeredness - in short, our sin. But worship… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The Democrat Party is willing to undermine whatever, if it'll get them back to power and keep them there. The Democrat Party's… — Rush Limbaugh Copy Share Image
I didn't want to be in the teeming mass of the working class.[...] I didn't want to live and die in the… — Jeanette Winterson Copy Share Image
When you're not playing up to your capability, you gotta try everything, to motivate, to get them going. All of them have… — Tommy Lasorda Copy Share Image
As a myth of national purpose and as a program for individual conduct, the simple life has, in a sense, served as… — David Shi Copy Share Image
For all the huffing and blowing we get about rugged individualism, the American spirit and the American experiment always have had at… — Charlie Pierce Copy Share Image
“But the not-self cannot have the bad, meaning they of the government and the judges and the schools cannot allow the bad… — Anthony Burgess Copy Share Image
Medicine, as we are practising it, is a luxury trade. We are selling bread at the price of jewels... Let us take… — Norman Bethune Copy Share Image
“For, whatever was the case in de Tocqueville's day, not the passion for egalitarianism but an individualist, that is anti-authoritarian, antinomian though… — Eric Hobsbawm Copy Share Image
“Everything he admired or loved had been the product of intense individualism. ...when had mass philosophies ever brought benefit or wisdom?” — John le Carré Copy Share Image
The duel between Christianity and atheism is the most important in the world, and the struggle between individualism and collectivism is the… — William F. Buckley, Jr Copy Share Image
Playwriting is the last great bastion of the individual writer. It's exciting precisely because it's where the money isn't. Money goes to… — John Patrick Shanley Copy Share Image
I think Hillary and Bill are really liberals at heart. I think that, in addition to being liberals, they are very practical.… — Maxine Waters 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
The irony is that in our decades, the combination of rationalism, asceticism, and individualism (the so-called Protestant Ethic) has produced precisely the… — Paul Goodman Copy Share Image
“Sometimes we walk in sunlight with everyone else. Sometimes we live underwater and fight and grow. And sometimes... ...sometimes we fly.” — Jenny Lawson Copy Share Image
In daily life what distinguishes the master is the using those materials he has, instead of looking about for what are more… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
To achieve world government, it is necessary to remove from the minds of men, their individualism, loyalty to family traditions, national patriotism… — Brock Chisholm Copy Share Image
The social problem of the twentieth century is whether civilized nations can restore themselves to sanity after their nineteenth-century aberrations of individualism… — Albion Woodbury Small Copy Share Image
Moreover, the abundance of chemical compounds and their importance in daily life hindered the chemist from investigating the question, in what does… — Johannes Stark Copy Share Image
A form of conservatism that makes clear we have problems in this country, it's not just about individualism, we have to help… — Damian Green 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
I should like [people] to like the purely individual thing in themselves, which makes them act in singleness. and They only like… — D. H. Lawrence Copy Share Image
In Italy, the Milanese are well organized but follow bourgeois taste. They adhere to certain codes of elegance, but not to individualism. — Christian Lacroix Copy Share Image
The kind of group mentality that we had lived under since the Second World War is starting to erupt, and the craving… — Nicolas Winding Refn Copy Share Image
Baseball exemplifies a tension in the American mind, the constant pull between our atomistic individualism and our yearning for community. — George Will Copy Share Image
I am not a newcomer, you know, so I want to be judged for what I did when I was prime minister… — Romano Prodi Copy Share Image
“Collectivists see the world the way Mr. Magoo did—as one big blur. They homogenize people in a communal blender, sacrificing the discrete… — Lawrence W. Reed Copy Share Image
Those nations of artists, finding their own individualism, and kind of standing against the world: to me that's the ultimate nightmare. I… — Robert Wyatt Copy Share Image
I think religious individualism doesn't fulfill impulses toward community and solidarity and it doesn't necessarily work for people when things go really… — Ross Douthat 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
In such a condition of affairs, the practical difference between the abolitionist and the sympathizer, to the man who lost his slave… — John Sergeant Wise Copy Share Image