America was founded on the principle of inalienable rights, not dictated duties. The Declaration of Independence states that every human being has… — Alex Epstein Copy Share Image
The political construct that idealized cowboys fell into disrepute during and immediately after the New Deal. In those years, Americans turned away… — Heather Cox Richardson 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
“The sort of individualism that scorns and fears connections with other people as threats to the self's integrity, and the sort of… — Marshall Berman Copy Share Image
“Writing during the heyday of Modernization Theory, the French critic Raymond Aron, though resolutely anti-communist, termed American-style individualism the product of a… — Pankaj Mishra Copy Share Image
[Altruism] is a moral system which holds that man has no right to exist for his own sake, that service to others… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
The energetic action of the times develops individualism, and the religious appear isolated. I esteem this a step in the right direction.… — Ralph Waldo Emerson 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
“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
...[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
“Of all the dangerous ideas that health officials could have embraced while trying to understand why we get fat, they would have… — Gary Taubes 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
The strongest reason why we ask for woman a voice in the government under which she lives; in the religion she is… — Elizabeth Cady Stanton Copy Share Image
The Internet is the best thing that ever happened to China. It turns us into individuals and also enables us to share… — Ai Weiwei Copy Share Image
Sadly, the Left is no longer liberal at all, for it has traded in individualism for collectivism, thus placing us into an… — Dave Rubin Copy Share Image
“You have the right to promote your own happiness just like everyone else, just like me. Your present dream has been shattered,… — Mao Dun Copy Share Image
America is a noisy culture, unlike, say, Finland, which values silence. Individualism, dominant in the U.S. and Germany, promotes the direct, fast-paced… — Laurie Helgoe Copy Share Image
Freedom, individualism, authenticity and being yourself so long as you don't hurt another's physical person or property: Sustained success comes only when… — Marcus Buckingham Copy Share Image
Anyone who is kind to man knows the fragmentariness of most men, and wants to arrange a society of power in which… — D. H. Lawrence Copy Share Image
“What I was suddenly aware of was the importance of their being whatever each of them was--cocky and contemptuous, or bothered and… — John Christopher Copy Share Image
We seek true individuality and the true individuals. But we find them not. For lo, we mortals see what our poor eyes… — Josiah Royce Copy Share Image
One cannot be pessimistic about the West. This is the native home of hope. When it fully learns that cooperation, not rugged… — Wallace Stegner Copy Share Image
While I can make no claim for having introduced the term "rugged individualism," I should be proud to have invented it. It… — Herbert Hoover Copy Share Image
The flight from study and awareness is much too common in a world that throws too many confusing pictures to the individual.… — Joost Meerloo 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
“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
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
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 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
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
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
“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
It used to be the boast of free men that, so long as they kept within the bounds of the known law,… — Friedrich August von Hayek 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 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
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
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
The Jacksonian era is generally talked about in terms of individualism, and the development of free market capitalism, and Victorian prudery. It… — Christine Jennings Copy Share Image
Individualism is at once an ethical-psychological concept and an ethical-political one. As an ethical-psychological concept, individualism holds that a human being should… — Nathaniel Branden Copy Share Image
The real Jack Johnson was both more and less than those who loved or those who hated him ever knew. He embodied… — Geoffrey Ward Copy Share Image
![“[Altruism] is a moral system which holds that man has no right to exist for his own sake, that service to others is the sole justification of his existence, and that self-sacrifice is his highest moral duty, value and virtue. This is the moral base of collectivism, of all dictatorships.” quote by Ayn Rand](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/f16/ayn-rand-59_altruism_altruism-is-a-moral-system-which-holds-t_311034.jpg)
![“[The public school system is] usually a twelve year sentence of mind control. Crushing creativity, smashing individualism, encouraging collectivism and compromise, destroying the exercise of intellectual inquiry, twisting it instead into meek subservience to authority.” quote by Walter Karp](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/138/walter-karp-49008_authority_the-public-school-system-is-usually-a-tw_1587731.png)
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