Individualism famous quotes
Last updated: Sep 5, 2024
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The fight we are in here, make no mistake about it, is a fight of individualism versus collectivism.
-- Ayn Rand -
Certainly, in Italy, nobody takes light for granted.
-- Barbara Steele -
If the 19th [century] was the century of the individual (liberalism means individualism), you may consider that this is the "collective" century, and therefore the century of the state.
-- Benito Mussolini -
Against individualism, the Fascist conception is for the State ... Liberalism denied the State in the interests of the particular individual; Fascism reaffirms the State as the true reality of the individual.
-- Benito Mussolini -
When there is no room for individualism in ballparks, then there will be no room for individualism in life.
-- Bill Veeck -
Punk has always been about doing things your own way. What it represents for me is ultimate freedom and a sense of individuality.
-- Billie Joe Armstrong -
I have had the problem of seeing my male model go to Italy and... stay there.
-- Camille Claudel -
No matter where I've been overseas, the food stinks, except in Italy.
-- Carmen Electra -
To this day the Arab influence is evident in southern Italy, northern Africa and, above all, in Spain.
-- Carroll Quigley -
In Italy, the Milanese are well organized but follow bourgeois taste. They adhere to certain codes of elegance, but not to individualism.
-- Christian Lacroix -
Italy is a divided country without a center.
-- Christian Lacroix -
The chief safeguard of personal freedom in a democratic society is the anarchy and disorder of capitalist individualism.
-- Christopher Dawson -
The older I get, the more individuality I find in animals and the less I find in humans.
-- Chuck Jones -
a society driven mainly by selfish individualism has all the potential for sustainability of a collection of angry scorpions in a bottle.
-- David Ehrenfeld -
Individualism and mobility are at the core of American identity
-- Deborah Tall -
You're on your own. And you know what you know. And YOU are the one who'll decide where to go...
-- Dr. Seuss -
The strongest reason why we ask for woman a voice in the government under which she lives; in the religion she is asked to believe; equality in social life, where she is the chief factor; a place in the trades and professions, where she may earn her bread, is because of her birthright to self-sovereignty; because, as an individual, she must rely on herself.
-- Elizabeth Cady Stanton -
Jean's whole job is to protect Victoria. Jean is a very practical, very orderly, very disciplined person; she is the personality called the gatekeeper.
-- Erika Slezak -
If our dreams were more regular, more connected, more stable, they would also have more practical importance for us.
-- Ernst Mach -
The 19th century was the age of Individualism the 20th and 21st are the ages of Socialism.
-- Francis Parker Yockey -
The intellectually sophisticated person is indifferent to all genuine individuality, because relationships and reactions result from it which cannot be exhausted with logical operations.
-- Georg Simmel -
When I compare myself, my being-myself, with anything else whatever, all things alike, all in the same degree, rebuff me with blank unlikeness.
-- Gerard Manley Hopkins -
When we've finished the current tour I'm going to go back to Italy and see if I can do some more writing.
-- Gerry Mulligan -
Standardization of our educational systems [which includes testing]is apt to stamp out individualism and defeat the very ends of education by leveling the product down rather than up.
-- Harvey Cushing -
Technologies tend to undermine community and encourage individualism.
-- Henry Mintzberg -
In Jefferson's mind democracy was tantamount to extreme individualism.
-- Herbert Croly -
We're going to take things away from you on behalf of the common good.
-- Hillary Clinton -
All I know is, if you listen to society, you'll never get anywhere!
-- Jerry Garcia -
The day of combination is here to stay. Individualism has gone, never to return.
-- John D. Rockefeller -
In such a condition of affairs, the practical difference between the abolitionist and the sympathizer, to the man who lost his slave and could not recover it, was very nebulous.
-- John Sergeant Wise -
In Italy the artist is a god. Now if the artist is a god, the scientist is likewise a god.
-- Josef Albers -
To be a socialist is to submit the I to the thou; socialism is sacrificing the individual to the whole.
-- Joseph Goebbels -
For myself, I do not now know in any concrete human terms wherein my individuality consists. In my present human form of consciousness I simply cannot tell.
-- Josiah Royce -
Libertarianism is rejected by the modern left - which preaches individualism but practices collectivism. Capitalism is rejected by the modern right-which preaches enterprise but practices protectionism.
-- Karl Hess -
In bourgeois society capital is independent and has individuality, while the living person is dependent and has no individuality.
-- Karl Marx -
I'm very practical. What I'm reaching for is individualism for women
-- Kathleen Turner -
Italy is a geographical expression.
-- Klemens von Metternich -
Communism is a monopolistic system, economically and politically. The system suppresses individual initiative, and the 21st century is all about individualism and freedom. The development of technology supported these directions.
-- Lech Walesa -
Everything is relative in this world, where change alone endures.
-- Leon Trotsky -
What, actually, is the difference between communism and fascism? Both are forms of statism, authoritarianism. The only difference between Stalin's communism and Mussolini's fascism is an insignificant detail in organizational structure.
-- Leonard Read -
I knew I was alone in a way that no earthling has ever been before.
-- Michael Collins -
The policy of seeking values from human beings by means of force, when practiced by an individual, is called crime. When practiced by a government, it is called statism ...
-- Nathaniel Branden -
Italy is definitely where I feel most at home, or alternatively, living in total wilderness, in the bush in Australia.
-- Noah Taylor -
Ayn Rand more than anyone else did a fantastic job of explaining the morality of capitalism, the morality of individualism.
-- Paul Ryan -
Before Sunrise did very well internationally. It made as much in Italy and Korea as it did here.
-- Richard Linklater -
The best thing you've got going for you is individuality.
-- Richard Thompson -
At the heart of excessive individualism is a broken heart
-- Robert Holden -
Non-conformism is the major, perhaps the only, sin of our time.
-- Robert M. Lindner -
Italy and Spain really are not my countries.
-- Ruud van Nistelrooy -
perhaps, if one wishes to remain an individual in the midst of the teeming multitudes, one must make oneself grotesque.
-- Salman Rushdie -
It is more difficult to designate this form of conation on its practical side by a satisfactory name.
-- Samuel Alexander -
What's natural and right is to go with the energy of how it all has to work together. What's natural and right is interconnectedness, not individualism. What is natural and right is respect for the system, not killing the system. What's natural and right is love.
-- Susan Powter -
Communism didn't work because people weren't ready for it, it was corrupt, and because it squelched individualism.
-- Tom Shadyac -
I live in Italy. I visit my family in Switzerland.
-- Ursula Andress -
Like all pure creatures, cats are practical.
-- William S. Burroughs -
Technical know-how of the experts must be transformed into practical do-how of the people.
-- Y. C. James Yen -
We're facing a crisis that we have not provoked, yet we are the main victims of the greatest crisis since the 1930s. It's not been generated by factors external to the system, but by factors that are of the very essence of the system: exacerbated individualism, deregulation, competition, and so on.
-- Rafael Correa -
I really like individualism based on truth.
-- Tyler Blackburn