Quotes about Individualism

The strong could make their own law, live their own lives; in fact, they were beyond good and evil. What was good and what was evil? It is easy enough to stifle conscience for a time. The satisfied flesh has its own law.

We grant no dukedoms to the few, We hold like rights and shall; Equal on Sunday in the pew, On Monday in the mall. For what avail the plough or sail, Or land, or life, if freedom fail?

no girl can permanently bolster up a lame-duck visitor, because these day it's every girl for herself.

Reason is not automatic. Those who deny it cannot be conquered by it. Do not count on them. Leave them alone.

The American dream is not that every man must be level with every other man. The American dream is that every man must be free to become whatever God intends he should become.

Among the things he passed on to me were the belief that all men and women, regardless of their color or religion, are created equal and that individuals determine their own destiny; that is, it's largely their own ambition and hard work that determine their fate in life.

He was a self-made man who owed his lack of success to nobody.

No one is guaranteed happiness. You can pursue it, but if you happen to find success along the way on that road to happiness, Conservatives believe you should not be demonized or penalized for it.

I think. I am. I will.

In those days there was no king in Israel: every man did that which was right in his own eyes.

There has never been a truly selfless rebel, just hypocrites—conscious hypocrites or unconscious hypocrites, it's all the same.

We must reject the idea that every time a law's broken, society is guilty rather than the lawbreaker. It is time to restore the American precept that each individual is accountable for his actions.