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
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
“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
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 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
“In principle a Party member had no spare time, and was never alone except in bed. It was assumed that when he… — George Orwell 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 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
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
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 failure of modern culture lies not in its principle of individualism, not in the idea that moral virtue is the same… — Erich Fromm 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
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
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
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 the modern industrialized Western world, where I come from, the person whom you choose to marry is perhaps the single most… — Elizabeth Gilbert 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
...[Changers] were a threat to identity, a challenge to the individualism even of those they were never likely to impersonate. It had… — Anonymous 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
“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
“But further, Hobbesian individualism required that traditional independent social authorities be eliminated or suppressed. Benjamin Constant, who was a keen observer of… — Donald W. Livingston 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
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
Men towering high above such political pygmies, men of refinement, of culture, of ability, are jeered into silence as mollycoddles. It is… — Emma Goldman 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
The great Christian art did not die because all possible forms had been used up; it died because faith was being transformed… — Andre Malraux 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
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
I think we need to find a way to provide people with a reason that the average man on the street can… — Neale Donald Walsch 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
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
“The majority never has right on its side. Never I say! That is one of the social lies that a free, thinking… — Henrik Ibsen 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
“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