Quotes about Individualism

Their surplus wealth to the mass of their fellows in the forms best calculated to do them lasting good. Thus is the problem of Rich and Poor to be solved. The laws of accumulation will be left free; the laws of distribution free. Individualism will continue, but the millionaire

We who live in free market societies believe that growth and prosperity, and ultimately human fulfillment are created from the bottom up, not the government down.

. . . Government should do only those things the people cannot do for themselves.

I will raise my voice as long as God gives me sound or ability, against this Communistic idea that the Government will take care of us all, and everything belongs to the government. It is wrong!

My happiness is not the means to any end. It is the end. It is its own goal. It is its own purpose.

Good bye, proud world! I'm going home; Thou art not my friend, and I'm not thine

It seemed to me that constant stressing of the individual rights and privileges of American citizenship had overshadowed the equally important truth that such individualism can be sustained only so long as the citizen accepts his full responsibility for the welfare of the nation that protects him in the exercise of these rights.

Love breaks the hold of individualism; it builds new communities out of the ashes of broken and fragmented relationships.

Need theories can thrive only in a context where the emphasis is on the individual rather than the community and where consumption is a way of life.

More and more, when faced with the world of men, the only reaction is one of individualism. Man alone is an end unto himself. Everything one tries to do for the common good ends in failure.

I hold it to be the inalienable right of anybody to go to hell in his own way.

For five hundred years, Christian teachers defined and redefined salvation almost entirely in individualistic terms, while well-disguised social evils—greed, pride, ambition, deceit, gluttony—moved to the highest levels of power and influence, even in our churches.