Top Individualism Quotes

There were always men who looked beyond the dimensions of their own society- and while they may have been called fools or criminals in their time they are the roster of great men as far as the record...

Sadly enough, individual liberty remains the ideal of revolutionary thinkers even in the 21st Century.

Individualism Definition

(n.) The quality of being individual; individuality; personality.

(n.) An excessive or exclusive regard to one's personal interest; self-interest; selfishness.

No state, no government exists. What does in fact exist is a man, or a few men, in power over many men.

You have to be a light to yourself in a world that is utterly becoming dark.

No rules for the rulers is tyranny for the subjects. Freedom for politicians is enslavement for citizens.

It is impossible for us to make any real advance until we take to heart this great truth, that without freedom of choice, without freedom of action, there are not such things as true moral qualities;...

Loyalty, respect for authority and some degree of sanctification create a more binding social order that places some limits on individualism and egoism.

It is only you, treading in the blessed path of peace and freedom, who can bring about the true regeneration of society, and with it the true happiness of your own lives.

Freedom in capitalist society always remains about the same as it was in ancient Greek republics: Freedom for slave owners.

Private property and free trade stand on exactly the same footing, both being essential and indivisible parts of liberty, both depending upon rights, which no body of men, whether called governments o...

The State in particular is turned into a quasi-animate personality from whom everything is expected. In reality it is only a camouflage for those individuals who know how to manipulate it.

My conduct with my friends is motivated: each being is, I believe, incapable on his own, of going to the end of being. If he tries, he is submerged within a "private being" which has meaning only for...

I like it when a flower or a little tuft of grass grows through a crack in the concrete. It's so fuckin' heroic.

The pathology of normalcy rarely deteriorates to graver forms of mental illness because society produces the antidote against such deterioration. When pathological processes become socially patterned,...

When individuals combine in a joint effort to realize ends the have in common, the organizations, like the state, that they form for this purpose are given their own system of ends and their own means...

Socialism, or communism as it is sometimes called, is merely a secular religion, where the State becomes a god.

Despair is typical of those who do not understand the causes of evil, see no way out, and are incapable of struggle.

Civil government, so far as it is instituted for the security of property, is in reality instituted for the defense of the rich against the poor, or of those who have some property against those who h...

Phrases like 'the team spirit' are always employed to cut across individualism, love and personal loyalties.

You show me a capitalist, and I'll show you a bloodsucker