Individualism Quote by Lee Patterson

“Would you believe, they insist on complete absence of individualism and that’s just what they relish! Not to be themselves, to be as unlike…

— Fyodor Dostoyevsky

“Our era is one in which individualism has been submerged by the herd-like mentality of a society where conformity, mediocrity and lowered expectations are…

— Brian J. D'Souza

“Our society is mature. Change is instability. That is why every institution we have resists change. To maintain the status quo is our sole…

— Peter F. Hamilton

“The sort of individualism that scorns and fears connections with other people as threats to the self's integrity, and the sort of collectivism that…

— Marshall Berman

“If individuality has no play, society does not advance; if individuality breaks out of all bonds, society perishes.”

— Thomas Henry Huxley

“We are on the verge of losing our capacity as a society for deep, sustained focus. In short, we are slipping toward a new…

— Anonymous

“I am successful because of my brains and my guts, put together, and I don't need some fancy-ass degree from a bunch of sweater-vest-wearing…

— Erin McCarthy

“Why do we go on and on about individuality being the very essence of who we are, and then accept a degrading level of…

— Bradley Trevor Greive

“American sociology as a collective enterprise is at heart committed to the visionary project of realizing the emancipation, equality, and moral affirmation of all…

— Christian Smith

The details of our struggle to survive and prosper, in what has been a difficult and sometimes bitter relationship with a system of laws…

— August Wilson

“The rise of corporatism (as opposed to capitalism) forced people into cubicles instead of out into the world, exploring and inventing and manifesting. The…

— James Altucher

Men towering high above such political pygmies, men of refinement, of culture, of ability, are jeered into silence as mollycoddles. It is absurd to…

— Emma Goldman