Quotes about Individualism
We are moving toward a dictatorship of relativism which does not recognize anything as for certain and which has as its highest goal one's own ego and one's own desires.
— Pope Benedict XVI
Only when the human spirit is allowed to invent and create, only when individuals are given a personal stake in deciding economic policies and benefiting from their success -- only then can societies remain economically alive, dynamic, prosperous, progressive and free.
— Ronald Reagan
The forbidden Book says when there's no authority "every man does what is right in his own eyes.
— Randy Alcorn
God does not blame me for being an individual, but for my individualism. His greatest problem is not the outward divisions and denominations that divide His church, but our own individualistic hearts.
— Watchman Nee
Everyone asks for freedom for himself, The man free love, the businessman free trade, The writer and talker free speech and free press.
— Robert Frost
Thank God you can flee, can escape from that massy five-foot-thick maggot-cheesy solidarity which overlays the earth, in which men and women in couples are ranked like ninepins.
— William Faulkner
I am not morally obligated to care more for a man than he cares for himself.
— Ayn Rand
And man will go on. Man, not men.
— Ayn Rand
Most men are so thoroughly subjective that nothing really interests them but themselves.
— Arthur Schopenhauer
This is the age othe common man, they tell us-a title which any man may claim to the extent osuch distinction as he has managed not to achieve.
— Ayn Rand
A man who seeks escape from the responsibility of supporting his life by his own thought and effort, and wishes to survive by conquering, ruling and exploiting others, is NOT an Individualist.
— Ayn Rand
The attack on "selfishness" is an attack on man's self-esteem; to surrender one, is to surrender the other.
— Ayn Rand