Individualist Quotes

35 quotes by 31 authors

The principle that the end justifies the means is in individualist ethics regarded as the denial of all morals. In collectivist ethics it becomes necessarily… — Friedrich August von Hayek
An individualist is a man who says: 'I will not run anyone's life - nor let anyone run mine. I will not rule or be… — Ayn Rand
I'm glad [Ornette Coleman] is such an individualist. I like the firmness of thought and purpose that goes into what he's doing, even though I… — Paul Desmond
Except in a few well-publicized instances (enough to lend credence to the iconography painted on the walls of the media), the rigorous practice of rugged… — Lewis H. Lapham
Trapped. Sinking. Can't be myself. Made into what other people expect. Is that everyone's fate? Were the great individualists the products of their friends who… — Michael Moorcock
Psychologism is, I believe, correct only in so far as it insists upon what may be called 'methodological individualism' as opposed to 'methodological collectivism'; it… — Karl Popper
To be a genuine individualist requires a great deal of strength and courage. It is never easy to chart new territory, to cross new frontiers,… — Toller Cranston
The crisis [the Great Depression] discovered a great man in Franklin Roosevelt...None too soon he has carried America forward to the second stage of democratic… — H.G. Wells
If you remove the English Army tomorrow and hoist the green flag over Dublin Castle., unless you set about the organization of the Socialist Republic… — James Connolly
If a walker is indeed an individualist there is nowhere he can't go at dawn and not many places he can't go at noon. But… — Edward Hoagland
A coldly rationalist individualist can deny that he has any obligation to make sacrifices for the future. — Garrett Hardin
Only in baseball can a team player be a pure individualist first and a team player second, within the rules and spirit of the game. — Branch Rickey
Miss Goldman is a Communist; I am an Individualist. She wishes to destroy the right of property; I wish to assert it. I make my… — Voltairine de Cleyre
I valued my independence from an early age and was always something of a individualist â€¦ Well, a show-off anyway. — Alice Roosevelt Longworth
There isn't much point arguing about the word "libertarian." It would make about as much sense to argue with an unreconstructed Stalinist about the word… — Noam Chomsky
The modern artist, by nature and destiny, is always an individualist. — Herbert Read
Right now it is a terrible thing to be a rugged individualist; but we don't know what else to be except a feeble nonentity. — Isabel Paterson
As a confirmed individualist I certainly do not wish to underrate the influence of the individual, for the masses do not lead the individual; rather,… — Gustav Stresemann
The American Indian was an individualist in religion as in war. He had neither a national army nor an organized church. — Charles Alexander Eastman
The little individualist, recognizing his individual impotence, realizing that he did not possess within himself even the basis of a moral judgement against his big… — Walter Weyl

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