Alas Quote by Nathaniel Branden

The anti-individualist enemies that Ayn Rand battled are still the enemy, but they've shifted their line of attack. Political collectivists are no longer much…

— P. J. O'Rourke

Whoever has once been truly unsettled by a work of the imagination will never give loyalty to a single idea, belief system, religious faith…

— Howard Jacobson

When they can't win a debate (can they ever?), leftists deploy what the late novelist/philosopher Ayn Rand called the argument from intimidation. Instead of…

— Don Feder

Today it is the skeptics who are the social conformists, though because of powerful intellectual propaganda they continue to enjoy thinking of themselves as…

— Dallas Willard

Those who lead by example and demonstrate passion for what they do make it much easier for their followers to do the same.

— Marshall Goldsmith

“Most people are not even aware of their need to conform. They live under the illusion that they follow their own ideas and inclinations,…

— Erich Fromm

Intellectuals incline to be individualists, or even independents, are not team conscious and tend to regard obedience as a surrender of personality.

— Harold Nicolson

“Fanatics clouded by self-justification.”

— Toba Beta

We are incredibly heedless in the formation of our beliefs, but find ourselves filled with an illicit passion for them when anyone proposes to…

— James Harvey Robinson

Admirers can be a tremendous force for conservatism.

— Brian Eno

I think those who have followed my political life would have known that I don't believe in just blind loyalty.

— Tan Cheng Bock

“Unlike the masses, intellectuals have a taste for rationality and interest in facts. Their critical habit of mind makes them resistant to the kind…

— Aldous Huxley