What we call the freedom of the individual is not just the luxury of one intellectual to write what he likes to… — Stephen Spender Copy Share Image
If our dreams were more regular, more connected, more stable, they would also have more practical importance for us. — Ernst Mach Copy Share Image
Unity is a great thing and a great slogan. But what the workers’ cause needs is the unity of Marxists, not unity… — Vladimir Lenin Copy Share Image
By the 1870s, ex-Confederates had taken their support for Western individualism a step further. They insisted the federal government was actively persecuting… — Heather Cox Richardson Copy Share Image
“The political vision of the religious right is for the most part an individualistic politics of righteousness, not a communal politics of… — Marcus J. Borg Copy Share Image
“Men will not accept truth at the hands of their enemies, and truth is seldom offered to them by their friends” — Alexis de Tocqueville Copy Share Image
Religion is the best antidote to the individualism of the consumer age. The idea that society can do without it flies in… — Jonathan Sacks 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
“None believeth in the soul of man, but only in some man or person old and departed. Ah me! no man goeth… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Liberty ... was a two-headed boon. There was first, the liberty of the people as a whole to determine the forms of… — H. L. Mencken Copy Share Image
The Middle Ages were an era of mysticism, ruled by blind faith and blind obedience to the dogma that faith is superior… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
We're facing a crisis that we have not provoked, yet we are the main victims of the greatest crisis since the 1930s.… — Rafael Correa Copy Share Image
“I believe that the duel between Christianity and atheism is the most important in the world. I further believe that the struggle… — William F. Buckley Copy Share Image
What's natural and right is to go with the energy of how it all has to work together. What's natural and right… — Susan Powter Copy Share Image
“Individualism • The first of these practical philosophies is individualism. When most people today are faced with a decision, the question that… — Matthew Kelly Copy Share Image
If you say the world is totally dependent on oil in many parts of the world, coal and certainly natural gas, we… — Jerry Brown Copy Share Image
“On Individualism: "Because I say Republicans are stupid, and hold that liberty, equality, and fraternity are exploded bubbles, does not make me… — Jack London Copy Share Image
Unlike Marxists, conservatives they don't want to control anything. We believe in individualism, self-reliance, rugged individualism, and we trust people that in… — Rush Limbaugh Copy Share Image
“[He] seemed to possess, beneath it all, an immutable sense of self-assurance, but in addition to that, the look of a man… — Ashim Shanker 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
“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
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
The difference between neoliberalism and fascism or Nazism or other forms of totalitarianism is that it takes questions of ideology seriously. It… — Henry Giroux Copy Share Image
Individualism is a denial that life has any meaning except the gratification of the ego; in politics it must end in anarchy.… — Russell Kirk Copy Share Image
The policy of seeking values from human beings by means of force, when practiced by an individual, is called crime. When practiced… — Nathaniel Branden Copy Share Image
“An empty city was like an empty library or school, it made you feel as if the entire thing was built just… — Adrianne Brooks Copy Share Image
“The surest defense against Evil is extreme individualism, originality of thinking, whimsicality, even—if you will—eccentricity.” — Joseph Brodsky Copy Share Image
“the idea of money primes individualism: a reluctance to be involved with others, to depend on others, or to accept demands from… — Daniel Kahneman Copy Share Image
All rational action is in the first place individual action. Only the individual thinks. Only the individual reasons. Only the individual acts. — Ludwig von Mises 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
“iGen’ers’ drumbeats of growing up slowly, individualism, and safety all manifest themselves in their exceedingly cautious attitude toward relationships.” — Jean M. Twenge Copy Share Image
Our social and economic system cannot march toward better days unless it is inspired by things of the Spirit. It is here… — Herbert Hoover Copy Share Image
“Handschrift ist so vieles, aber ist doch nichts in einer Welt in der Schrift beinahe nur noch in Form von Pixeln existiert.” — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I was born in Indiana and raised in Oregon and there's a strong sense of individualism, particularly in Oregon. And my mom… — Lisa Kennedy Montgomery Copy Share Image
a society driven mainly by selfish individualism has all the potential for sustainability of a collection of angry scorpions in a bottle. — David Ehrenfeld Copy Share Image
In a society in which individualism is becoming rampant, people more and more believe that they are the center of the world.… — Martin Seligman 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
“Human beings are born with different capacities. If they are free, they are not equal. And if they are equal, they are… — Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn Copy Share Image
A Libertarian society of unfettered individualism spreads its benefits to virtually everyone - not just those who have the resources to seize… — Harry Browne Copy Share Image