Quotes about Individualism

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

We have moved away from traditional Judeo-Christian values toward a worldview that lets us self-select values based on whether they serve our self-interests. Like a child loose in a candy store, we pick our values, we determine our own fate, we captain our own ship.

In those days there was no king in Israel; everyone did what was right in his own eyes.

And when you were eating and drinking, were you not doing so simply for yourselves?

For each one should carry his own load.

If everybody minded their own business... the world would go round a deal faster than it does.

"Sometimes," said she, "I think that is my permanent feeling towards people. I like the world, the sky and the earth and the greater mystery beyond. But people—yes, they are all monkeys to me."

A lot of these American actors have this - in my view - misplaced view that they have to look like Action Man. The trouble is, they all run the risk of being interchangeable.

Every fat must stand upon its own bottom;

The desire not to be anything is the desire not to be.

You shouldn't be a big shot about your fate. I'm an enemy of Destiny, I'm not a Greek, I'm a Berliner.

The future does not belong to those who believe in socialism. The future belongs to those who believe in freedom.