Individualism Quotes

It's ok to do your own thing for a while sometimes the call of the soul is a much more enticing path then one of a drunken phone call from your pals, call it the 21st century or whatever you wish but most live for the weekend untying the knots & ropes of slavery from during the week with no drive nor purpose to become something more than a pay check & a good time every 5 days.

~ Nikki Rowe

As long as government has the power to regulate business, business will control government by funding the candidate that legislates in their favor. A free-market thwarts lobbying by taking the power that corporations seek away from government! The only sure way to prevent the rich from buying unfair government influence is to stop allowing government to use physical force against peaceful people. Whenever government is allowed to favor one group over another, the rich will always win, since they can buy more favors, overtly or covertly, than the poor.

~ Mary J. Ruwart

As a human being you have the right to express yourself. You have the right to journey wherever your mind wanders and to express the thoughts you come up with along the way. You have the right to believe, and to atone, the same way you have the right to love and to hate.

~ Raif Badawi

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

~ Stefan Molyneux

Anarcho-capitalism is not by definition libertarian. It is rather a prediction, not a definition.

~ David D. Friedman

My take on socialism is this: Socialism only seems to work when you don't fully implement it, when you keep enough capitalism around to pay socialism's bills, at least for a time. It's the difference between milking the cow and killing it. Socialism has no theory of wealth creation; it's just a destructive, envy-driven fantasy about redistributing it after something else (and somebody else) creates it first.

~ Lawrence W. Reed

Socialism is not really an option in the material world. There can be no collective ownership of anything materially scarce. One or another faction will assert control in the name of society. Inevitably, the faction will be the most powerful in society -- that is, the state. This is why all attempts to create socialism in scarce goods or services devolve into totalitarian systems of top-down planning.

~ Jeffrey Tucker

Free-market capitalism is a network of free and voluntary exchanges in which producers work, produce, and exchange their products for the products of others through prices voluntarily arrived at.

~ Murray N. Rothbard

Liberty means refusing to allow some men to use the state to compel other men to serve their interests or opinion.

~ Auberon Herbert

Human beings are born with different capacities. If they are free, they are not equal. And if they are equal, they are not free.

~ Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

Compassion without discipline is egregious self-sabotage.

~ Stefan Molyneux

The foundation of individual rights is the assumption that people have wants and needs and are authorities on what those wants and needs are. If people's stated desires were just some kind of erasable inscription or reprogrammable brainwashing, any atrocity could be justified.

~ Steven Pinker

The rights of the individual are more important than the wishes of the masses.

~ J.adam Snyder

Becoming a part of a movement doesn't help anybody think clearly.

~ Sam Harris

Stay true to yourself. An original is worth more than a copy.

~ Suzy Kassem

Be yourself because an original is worth more than just a copy.

~ Suzy Kassem

Be yourself because an original is always worth more than a copy.

~ Suzy Kassem

In fact I've reached the stage where I look at people and say - he or she, they are whole at all because they've chosen to block off at this stage or that. People stay sane by blocking off, by limiting themselves.

~ Doris Lessing

Be different. Be original. Nobody will remember a specific flower in a garden filled with thousands of the same yellow flower, but they will remember the one that managed to change its color to purple.

~ Suzy Kassem

A whole nation cannot rise above itself.

~ Alexis De Tocqueville

All spiritual techniques seek to awaken fallen man from the dream in which he lives : he dreams continuously of individual state of being, and of the many forms through which the external world presents itself to him; he builds for himself a paradise of illusions, so as to forget the absence of God. To recover the vision of the spiritual world, the soul of man must die to this dream, this ceaseless flow of images which fallen man regards as normal, everyday state of his consciousness.

~ Seyyed Hossein Nasr

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

~ Jiddu Krishnamurti

A person who is truly cool is a work of art. And remember, original works of art cost exponentially higher than imitations. Just take a look at the the coolest people in history. They will always be a part of history for being extremely original individuals, not imitations.

~ Suzy Kassem

Art is the most intense mode of individualism that the world has known.

~ Oscar Wilde

To call an artist morbid because he deals with morbidity as his subject-matter is as silly as if one called Shakespeare mad because he wrote ‘King Lear.

~ Oscar Wilde

The arts that have escaped [uniformity] best are the arts in which the public take no interest. Poetry is an instance of what I mean. We have been able to have fine poetry in England because the public do not read it, and consequently do not influence it.

~ Oscar Wilde

Your brother is a sensitive person. Aesthetically, ethically, and intellectually he is in fact hypersensitive. As a result, it would seem that he was born only to torture himself. He has none of that saving dullness of intelligence which sees little difference between A and B. To him it must be either A or B. And if it is to be A, its shape, degree, and shade of color must precisely match his own conception of it; otherwise he will not accept it. Your brother, being sensitive, is all his life walking on a line he has chosen—a line as precarious as a tight rope. At the same time he impatiently demands that others also tread an equally precarious rope, without missing their footing. It would be a mistake, though, to think that this stems from selfishness. Imagine a world which could react exactly the way your brother expects; that world would undoubtedly be far more advanced than the world as it is now. Consequently, he detests the world which is—aesthetically, intellectually, and ethically—not as advanced as he is himself. That's why it's different from mere selfishness, I think.

~ Sōseki Natsume

Only he qualifies to be an INDIVIDUAL, who has created an IMAGE for himself, in tune with his INTRINSIC NATURE, for majority only succumb to the human stupidity and perish!

~ Ramana Pemmaraju

Individual identities and national destines were shaped by the tripod of history, geography, and philosophy.

~ Patrick Mendis

Being different and thinking different makes a person unforgettable. History does not remember the forgettable.

~ Suzy Kassem

When we begin to think like everybody else thinks, that is dangerous. Individualism is part of our divine endowment. God made us as individuals and we are responsible before Him.

~ Dr. J. Otis Yoder

To be of value to humanity, start by thinking for yourself.

~ Suzy Kassem

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

~ George Carlin

Punk is about being an individual and going against the grain and standing up and saying 'This is who I am.

~ Joey Ramone

We are all valuable. Humanity needs our individual services.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

Who would you be but who you are?

~ Terry Brooks

How can I give up stalking when I have a family to feed? Get a job? I don't want to work for you, your work makes me puke, do you understand? This is the way I figure it: if a man works with you, he is always working for one of you, he is a slave and nothing else. And I always wanted to be myself, on my own, so that I could spit at you all, at your boredom and despair.

~ Arkady Strugatsky

Without being an independent individual, without having an independent mind, you become nothing more than a trivial slave or an obscure shadow!

~ Mehmet Murat Ildan

The crowd, in fact, is composed of individuals; it must therefore be in every man's power to become what he is, an individual. From becoming an individual no one, no one at all, is excluded, except he who excludes himself by becoming a crowd. To become a crowd, to collect a crowd about one, is on the contrary to affirm the distinctions of human life. The most well-meaning person who talks about these distinctions can easily offend an individual. But then it is not the crowd which possesses power, influence, repute, and mastery over men, but it is the invidious distinctions of human life which despotically ignore the single individual as the weak and impotent, which in a temporal and worldly interest ignore the eternal truth- the single individual.

~ Søren Kierkegaard

I would rather have strong enemies than a world of passive individualists. In a world of passive individualists nothing seems worth anything simply because nobody stands for anything. That world has no convictions, no victories, no unions, no heroism, no absolutes, no heartbeat. That world has rigor mortis.

~ Criss Jami