Quotes about Individualism

Now produce your explanation and pray make it improbable.

Selfishness is not living as one wishes to live. It is asking other people to live as one wishes to live.

Productiveness is your acceptance of morality, your recognition of the fact that you choose to live.

For the 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 was to have, and did not know that the important thing is to be.  The true perfection of man lies, not in what man has, but in what man is.

People used to say of me that I was too individualistic. I must be far more of an individualist than ever I was. I must get far more out of myself than ever I got, and ask far less of the world than ever I asked. Indeed, my ruin came not from too great individualism of life, but from too little. The one disgraceful, unpardonable, and to all time contemptible action of my life was to allow myself to appeal to society for help and protection.

Other people are quite dreadful.  The only possible society is oneself.

However, I don't propose to discuss politics, sociology, or metaphysics with you. I like persons better than principles, and I like persons with no principles better than anything else in the world.

He [Calvin Coolidge] is the first president to discover that what the American people want is to be left alone.

I quietly declare war with the State, after my fashion, though I will still make use and get advantage of her as I can, as is usual in such cases.

I would rather sit on a pumpkin, and have it all to myself, than be crowded on a velvet cushion.

I dont work with collectives. I don't consult, i don't co-operate, I don't collaborate.

We live in an age that stresses personal goals, careers, happiness, work and religion. The emphasis is on the individual and how best that individual can satisfy himself.