Individualist Quotes

I am a rank individualist.

— Arthur Keith

Everything that I'm really about is being an individualist. I believe in individuality.

— Mike Vallely

Nobody is such an individualist as the man who advocates equality.

— Katherine Cecil Thurston

An individualist is one who pays his taxes with a smile

— Al Diamond

I'm an individualist. I want to have full control. It would be annoying for me if I didn't.

— Iga Swiatek

The modern artist, by nature and destiny, is always an individualist.

— Herbert Read

Robben is more of a one-on-one individualist. He's a player who can decide a game.

— Michael Laudrup

“Now you've got to ask yourself one question. Do I feel lucky? - Inspector Harry Callahan”

— Clint Eastwood

Individualism is a denial that life has any meaning except the gratification of the ego; in politics it must end in anarchy.…

— Russell Kirk

The American Indian was an individualist in religion as in war. He had neither a national army nor an organized church.

— Anonymous

When I was young I was called a rugged individualist. When I was in my fifties I was considered eccentric. Here I…

— George Burns

A man who seeks escape from the responsibility of supporting his life by his own thought and effort, and wishes to survive…

— Ayn Rand

I valued my independence from an early age and was always something of a individualist … Well, a show-off anyway.

— Alice Roosevelt Longworth

Trapped. Sinking. Can't be myself. Made into what other people expect. Is that everyone's fate? Were the great individualists the products of…

— Michael Moorcock

Only in baseball can a team player be a pure individualist first and a team player second, within the rules and spirit…

— Branch Rickey

I am not an individualist in the Western sense. Collectivism can become oppressive when it tries to dictate; the rights of the…

— Asghar Ali Engineer

“Sometimes (more in sport than from real concern) I defended myself against the charge of individualism and demanded from the others proof…

— Milan Kundera

“An Individualist is a man who lives for his own sake and by his own mind; he neither sacrifices himself to others…

— Ayn Rand

I am a strong individualist by personal habit, inheritance, and conviction; but it is a mere matter of common sense to recognize…

— Theodore Roosevelt

“mold—William Henry Yale also subscribed to Roosevelt’s notions of the ideal American man and of the dangers of “over-civilization,” code for effeminacy.…

— Scott Anderson

I am not a communist first and an individualist second. I am an individualist first, and I don't mean this in the…

— Murray Bookchin

The little individualist, recognizing his individual impotence, realizing that he did not possess within himself even the basis of a moral judgement…

— Walter Weyl

I'm glad [Ornette Coleman] is such an individualist. I like the firmness of thought and purpose that goes into what he's doing,…

— Paul Desmond

“Whereas, in the west, individuality and drive are considered positive qualities, they are not seen the same way, in Japan. In that…

— Alexei Maxim Russell

Miss Goldman is a Communist; I am an Individualist. She wishes to destroy the right of property; I wish to assert it.…

— Voltairine de Cleyre

“In a society that no longer understands the figure of the ascetic and of the warrior; in which the hands of the…

— Julius Evola

“It has been observed that I show hardly any interest in talking about myself. It is hard for me to disentangle my…

— Victor Serge

It is true that the virtues which are less esteemed and practiced now--independence, self-reliance, and the willingness to bear risks, the readiness…

— Friedrich August von Hayek

“The test of character posed by the gentleness of God's approach to us is especially dangerous for those formed by the ideas…

— Dallas Willard

“He knew no future then, no kind of life except the life he led. He fled the cave-bear over the rocks full…

— H.G. Wells

If anarcho-communism served to regiment the population in the name of libertarian unity, if it served in any way through collectivist measures…

— Murray Bookchin

I don't feel the individualist anarchists, particularly in the American tradition, including the Transcendental tradition of New England, in any way deserve…

— Murray Bookchin

The writer is the Faust of modern society, the only surviving individualist in a mass age. To his orthodox contemporaries he seems…

— Boris Pasternak

A coldly rationalist individualist can deny that he has any obligation to make sacrifices for the future.

— Garrett Hardin

I've always thought of Denys Finch Hatton as a combination of Hubbell Gardner from 'The Way We Were' and Jeremiah Johnson. He…

— Sydney Pollack

“The inside story on a man was that if he wanted to be successful, he must become a rugged individualist, but then…

— Bob Dylan

Right now it is a terrible thing to be a rugged individualist; but we don't know what else to be except a…

— Isabel Paterson

To be a genuine individualist requires a great deal of strength and courage. It is never easy to chart new territory, to…

— Toller Cranston

“The adventurer, by minimum definition, is an individualist. The life of adventure is an unsocial game; therefore in direct contrast with the…

— William Bolitho

It is one thing to decry the rat race...that is the good and honorable work of moralists. It is quite another thing…

— Paul Gruchow