Individualism Quotes

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

Art, Known, Intense

The reason I got involved in public service, by and large, if I had to credit one thinker, one person, it would be Ayn Rand. The fight we are in here, make no mistake about it, is a fight of individualism versus collectivism.
Paul Ryan

Fight, Person, Reason

I don't envisage collectivism. There is no such animal, it is always individualism, sometimes the rest vote and sometimes they do not, and if they do they do and if they do not they do not.
Gertrude Stein

Sometimes, Vote, Rest

For too long in this society, we have celebrated unrestrained individualism over common community.
Joe Biden

Society, Long, Community

Liberty in Islam is the liberty to be a Muslim, democracy likewise, individualism likewise.
James Buchan

Islam, Democracy, Liberty

I've run into certain geniuses of individualism - they are very few and far between - who live their lives completely on their own terms; they are very powerful and have a great amount of happiness. We all should aspire to that.
David Duchovny

Happiness, Great, Live

At his best, Obama promised to work with Republicans to reduce the deficit in a way that honors both individualism and community.
Ron Fournier

Work, Best, Both

Well, one of the most important things for Americans to be reminded of is that a lot of the exceptional nature of our country is founded in Judeo-Christian values that promotes individualism, personal responsibility, a strong work ethic, and a commitment to family, charity.
Jim DeMint

Work, Family, Nature

Religion is the best antidote to the individualism of the consumer age. The idea that society can do without it flies in the face of history and, now, evolutionary biology.
Jonathan Sacks

Age, Religion, Best

Those nations of artists, finding their own individualism, and kind of standing against the world: to me that's the ultimate nightmare. I want to get lost and diffused in the world.
Robert Wyatt

Lost, Against, Artists

A Libertarian society of unfettered individualism spreads its benefits to virtually everyone - not just those who have the resources to seize political power.
Harry Browne

Power, Society, Political

We can pay the ecological debt by changing economic models, and by giving up luxury consumption, setting aside selfishness and individualism, and thinking about the people and the planet Earth.
Evo Morales

Thinking, Giving, Earth

I'm very practical. What I'm reaching for is individualism for women.
Kathleen Turner

Women, Practical, Reaching

The 19th century was the age of Individualism; the 20th and 21st are the ages of Socialism.
Francis Parker Yockey

Age, Socialism, Century

In Italy, the Milanese are well organized but follow bourgeois taste. They adhere to certain codes of elegance, but not to individualism.
Christian Lacroix

Follow, Taste, Italy

There's been a boiling down of real emotion into a set pattern instead of individualism.
Skeet Ulrich

Real, Down, Emotion

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

Love, Work, Respect

Communism didn't work because people weren't ready for it, it was corrupt, and because it squelched individualism.
Tom Shadyac

Work, Ready, Communism

In Jefferson's mind democracy was tantamount to extreme individualism.
Herbert Croly

Mind, Democracy, Extreme

I appreciate individualism.
Freema Agyeman

Individualism is rather like innocence; there must be something unconscious about it.
Louis Kronenberger

Rather, Innocence

There's something unique about the United States, a sense of individual rights and freedoms, and a sense of social and civic responsibility that we contributed to so much of the world. We lost that mission in the 1980s and 1990s, when we entered a gilded age, and the culture of individualism became a culture of avarice.
George Hickenlooper

Age, Lost, Sense

In America, the stories we tell ourselves and we tell each other in fiction have to do with individualism. Every person here is the center of his or her own story. And our job as people and as characters is to find our own motivations and desires, to overcome conflicts and obstacles toward defining ourselves so that we grow and change.
Adam Johnson

Change, Job, Person

I pattern my actions and life after what I want. No two people are alike. You might admire attributes in others, but use these only as a guide in improving yourself in your own unique way. I don't go for carbon copies. Individualism is sacred!
Richard Chamberlain

Life, Yourself, Two

Standardization of our educational systems is apt to stamp out individualism and defeat the very ends of education by leveling the product down rather than up.
Harvey Cushing

Education, Down, Rather

I'm a daughter of the middle class with a strong sense of social mobility and individualism, like the waves of immigrants, like my Spanish grandparents, who made Argentina.
Cristina Kirchner

Strong, Made, Sense

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