We can have intellectual individualism and the rich cultural diversities that we owe to exceptional minds only at the price of occasional… — Robert H. Jackson Copy Share Image
God is a complex of ideas formed by the tribe, the nation, and humanity, which awake and organize social feelings and aim… — Maxim Gorky Copy Share Image
Lose this day loitering 'Twill be the same old story, Tomorrow and the next, Even more dilatory. Whatever you would do, Or… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe 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
Once it has been perceived that the division of labour is the essence of society, nothing remains of the antithesis between individual… — Ludwig von Mises Copy Share Image
Standardization of our educational systems [which includes testing]is apt to stamp out individualism and defeat the very ends of education by leveling… — Harvey Cushing Copy Share Image
For myself, I do not now know in any concrete human terms wherein my individuality consists. In my present human form of… — Josiah Royce 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
“[The public school system is] usually a twelve year sentence of mind control. Crushing creativity, smashing individualism, encouraging collectivism and compromise, destroying… — Walter Karp Copy Share Image
Competitive individualism militates against the experience of community, and that lack of community is a centrally important factor in contemporaneous anxiety. — Rollo May Copy Share Image
In a lot of places in the United States and certainly even more places around the world, the image of the cowboy… — Viggo Mortensen Copy Share Image
Technical know-how of the experts must be transformed into practical do-how of the people. — Y. C. James Yen Copy Share Image
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
But society has now fairly got the better of individuality; and the danger which threatens human nature is not the excess, but… — John Stuart Mill Copy Share Image
I really like individualism based on truth. That's something I try to think about. What do I actually think about that, what… — Tyler Blackburn Copy Share Image
The enemies of intellectual liberty always try to present their case as a plea for discipline versus individualism. The issue truth-versus-untruth is… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
In terms of an identity, an identity reflects an individuality, by definition. And, if there is a quality present, it is recognizable… — Robert Fripp Copy Share Image
Progress in thought is the assertion of individualism against authority. — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
The [classical] liberal, of course, does not deny that there are some superior people -- he is not an egalitarian -- but… — Friedrich August von Hayek Copy Share Image
Corporation: a miniature totalitarian state governed by a hierarchy of unelected officials who take a dim view of individualism, free speech, equality… — Rick Bayan Copy Share Image
Instead of questioning WHY someone doesn't approve of you or your choices 'Ask yourself 'Why do I need their approval in the… — Sonya Parker Copy Share Image
“Why should people in one part of the globe have developed collectivist cultures, while others went individualist? The United States is the… — Robert M. Sapolsky Copy Share Image
Liberals tend to understand that a person can be lucky or unlucky in all matters relevant to his success. Conservatives, however, often… — Sam Harris Copy Share Image
I don't think my father had a direct influence on me, but I do think, more or less, I was influenced by… — Ai Weiwei Copy Share Image