Citizens Quote by Alexis de Tocqueville

Society cares for the individual only so far as he is profitable.

— Simone de Beauvoir

“If one prevents a man from working for the good of society while at the same time providing for the satisfaction of his own…

— Ludwig von Mises

Every man's occupation should be beneficial to his fellow-man as well as profitable to himself. All else is vanity and folly.

— P. T. Barnum

In proportion to the development of his individuality, each person becomes more valuable to himself, and is therefore capable of being more valuable to…

— John Stuart Mill

By virtue of exchange, one man's prosperity is beneficial to all others.

— Frederic Bastiat

Every individual is continually exerting himself to find out the most advantageous employment for whatever capital he can command. It is his own advantage,…

— Adam Smith

Each of us has interests which conflict the interests of everybody else... 'everybody else' we call 'society'. It's a powerful opponent and it always…

— Anonymous

“Every individual is continually exerting himself to find out the most advantageous employment for whatever capital he can command. It is his own advantage,…

— Adam Smith

“It is not by wearing down into uniformity all that is individual in themselves, but by cultivating it and calling it forth ... that…

— John Stuart Mill

Passion for equality blinds the utopian to the fact that society, as a whole, is based on inequality of men in two respects: the…

— Thomas Steven Molnar

We continue to recognize the greater ability of some to earn more than others. But we do assert that the ambition of the individual…

— Franklin D. Roosevelt

Since the social victim has been oppressed by society, he comes to feel that his individual life will be improved more by changes in…

— Shelby Steele