Top 288 Individualism Quotes & Sayings

Technologies tend to undermine community and encourage individualism.

There is no individualism in Eastern or oral cultures.

Our individualism is rooted in our very nature. It is based on conviction born of experience. Equal opportunity, the demand for a fair chance, became the formula of American Individualism because it is the method of American achievement.

Unrestricted individualism is the law of the beast of the jungle.

Individualism is a formidable lie.

In America, you have this kind of individualism and in the West, essentially, you have this individualism - this idea of my own personal fulfillment.

I really like individualism based on truth.

Individualism has come in for an enormous amount of criticism over the years. It still does. It is widely assumed to be synonymous with selfishness...But the main reason why so many people in power have always disliked individualism is because it is individualists who are ever keenest to prevent the abuse of authority.

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

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

As we seek to eliminate individualism in teaching, we should not eradicate individuality with it.

Part of the power of Emerson's individualism is his insistence, at crucial moments, that individualism does not mean isolation or self-sufficiency. This is not a paradox, for it is only the strong individual who can frankly concede the sometimes surprising extent of his own dependence.

Progressivism is usually seen as a stepping back from individualism into a progressive community...

The chief safeguard of personal freedom in a democratic society is the anarchy and disorder of capitalist individualism.

At a time when individualism is becoming an endangered species, jazz represents a celebration of the individual.

Unlike Marxists, conservatives they don't want to control anything. We believe in individualism, self-reliance, rugged individualism, and we trust people that in free markets and free circumstances they will do the best to improve themselves and their families. We want as few controls on them as possible. We love everybody, and we want the best for everybody, and we believe people should be free to use whatever talent and ambition and desire they have to achieve whatever they want.

We are not on the way to greater individualism, but are becoming an increasingly manipulated mass civilization.

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

a society driven mainly by selfish individualism has all the potential for sustainability of a collection of angry scorpions in a bottle.

In a lot of places in the United States and certainly even more places around the world, the image of the cowboy has become, for some people, a negative one. The word 'cowboy' implies a strong, stubborn individual whose individualism depends on pulling down other people's individualism.

Progress in thought is the assertion of individualism against authority.

Jeremy Corbyn and John McDonnell have made no secret of their desire to stamp out individualism and enterprise.

I respect and value the ideals of rugged individualism and self-reliance. But rugged individualism didn't defeat the British, it didn't get us to the moon, build our nation's highways, or map the human genome. We did that together. This is the high call of patriotism.

Individualism is at once an ethical-psychological concept and an ethical-political one. As an ethical-psychological concept, individualism holds that a human being should think and judge independently, respecting nothing more than the sovereignty of his or her mind; thus, it is intimately connected with the concept of autonomy. As an ethical-political concept, individualism upholds the supremacy of individual rights

When there is no room for individualism in ballparks, then there will be no room for individualism in life.

Individualism is going around these days in uniform, handing out the party line on individualism.

The distinctive principle of Western social philosophy is individualism.

Individualism regards man - every man - as an independent, sovereign entity who possesses an inalienable right to his own life, a right derived from his nature as a rational being. Individualism holds that a civilized society, or any form of association, cooperation or peaceful co-existence among men, can be achieved only on the basis of the recognition of individual rights - and that a group, as such, has no rights other than the individual rights of its members.

Art is individualism, and individualism is a disturbing and disintegrating force. There lies its immense value. For what it seeks is to disturb monotony of type, slavery of custom, tyranny of habit, and the reduction of man to the level of a machine. It seeks to show new perspectives and other choices. It is a way to help expand and liberate the consciousness; our experiences, understandings, imaginings, options and thereby our lives.

Much of the discussion about socialism and individualism is entirely pointless, because of failure to agree on terminology.

I appreciate individualism.

Patriotism is the opposite of selfish individualism.

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

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

Radical individualism can be very sad.

I got tattoos for purely antisocial reasons, and now people do it for social acceptance. I miss the individualism.

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

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

I was also fortunate that I was raised in a part of the world, West Texas, where individualism is strong.

The day of combination is here to stay. Individualism has gone, never to return.

When I was younger, I was drawn to Ayn Rand books and other works of fiction celebrating individualism.

If a life can have a 'theme-song' - and I believe every worthwhile one has - mine is [best] expressed in one word: Individualism.

At the basic consumer level, the profusion of fonts appeals to a culture that celebrates expressive individualism.

Art is individualism, and individualism is a disturbing and disintegrating force.

A work of art is the unique result of a unique temperament. Its beauty comes from the fact that the author is what he is. ...Art is the most intense mode of Individualism that the world has known. I am inclined to say that it is the only real mode of Individualism that the world has known. ...Art is Individualism.

'Rugged individualism' has meant all the 'individualism' for the masters, while the people are regimented into a slave caste to serve a handful of self-seeking 'supermen.' America is perhaps the best representative of this kind of individualism, in whose name political tyranny and social oppression are defended and held up as virtues; while every aspiration and attempt of man to gain freedom and social opportunity to live is denounced as 'un-American' and evil in the name of that same individuality.

Individualism and mobility are at the core of American identity

Individualism is rather like innocence: There must be something unconscious about it.

Methodological individualism is the doctrine that psychological states are individuated with respect to their causal powers.

In general, democracy and individualism have advanced in spite of and often against specific economic interest. Both democracy and individualism have been based upon financial sacrifice, not gain. Even in Athens, a large part of the 7,000 citizens who participated regularly in assemblies were farmers who had to give up several days' work to go into town to talk and listen.

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

It is not as late as you think. It is merely early - in the age of the rebirth of individualism.

Individualism is what makes cooperation worth living.

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

Many of those engaged in a lemming-like march to the sea are proud of their individualism.

If we return to the two faces of individualism - individualism as the spur of energy, initiative, and imagination; and individualism as the limitless struggle of all against all - it can be seen how the two practices emerge from and limit the extend of the disequilibrating impact of the contradiction involved in the geocultural agenda.

[T]he recognition of private property has really harmed Individualism, and obscured it, by confusing a man with what he possesses. It has led Individualism entirely astray. It has made gain, not growth its aim. So that man thought that the important thing is to have, and did not know that the important thing is to be.

Individualism has really the higher aim. Modern morality consists in accepting the standard of one's age.

Art = a mad search for individualism.

When the purge of teacher individualism is unrestrained, eccentricity, initiative and individuality become the casualties.