individualism quotes

I just usually go with my own taste. If I like something, and it happens to be against the law, well, then I might have a problem.

I’ve always kinda been a little outcast myself, a little oddball, doin‘ my thing, my own way. And it’s been hard for me to, to be accepted, certainly in the early years of my life.

I don’t want followers.

I don’t like being told what to do and kissing you-know-what to get up the corporate ladder.

I don’t fight in chase of an individual. I hear this sometimes where fighters work their whole careers to reach a matchup with a certain individual. I do not think in that way.

An individual has not started living until he can rise above the narrow confines of his individualistic concerns to the broader concerns of all humanity.

Most young people were getting jobs in big companies, becoming company men. I wanted to be individual.

One thing I want to make clear, as far as my own rebirth is concerned, the final authority is myself and no one else, and obviously not China’s Communists.

I never desired to please the rabble. What pleased them, I did not learn; and what I knew was far removed from their understanding.

What someone else does or doesn’t do has no effect on me and what I do.

Capitalism has destroyed our belief in any effective power but that of self interest backed by force.

I hate all politics. I don’t like either political party. One should not belong to them – one should be an individual, standing in the middle. Anyone that belongs to a party stops thinking.

It is hard to be an individual in Japan.

For too long in this society, we have celebrated unrestrained individualism over common community.

I define nothing. Not beauty, not patriotism. I take each thing as it is, without prior rules about what it should be.

Base souls have no faith in great individuals.

Like Frank Sinatra, I’m doing it my way.

Selfishness is not living as one wishes to live, it is asking others to live as one wishes to live.

In the West, as well as some other parts of the world, the personal sense of ego tends to predominate, whereas in other areas, there is a more collective sense of ego. This collective ego emphasizes the ‚we‘ rather than the ‚I.‘

Art is individualism, and individualism is a disturbing and disintegrating force.

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

Every man must do two things alone; he must do his own believing and his own dying.

I’m just an individual who doesn’t feel that I need to have somebody qualify my work in any particular way. I’m working for me.

There is no such thing as society: there are individual men and women, and there are families.

There are two kinds of people in this world. ‚I‘ people and ‚we‘ people. I’ve always tried to be a ‚we‘ person.

Romantic art deals with the exception and with the individual. Good people, belonging as they do to the normal, and so, commonplace type, are artistically uninteresting.

The Public is merely a multiplied ‚me.‘

I do not believe in the collective wisdom of individual ignorance.

I do not believe in immortality of the individual, and I consider ethics to be an exclusively human concern with no superhuman authority behind it.

Society exists only as a mental concept; in the real world there are only individuals.

In our personal ambitions we are individualists. But in our seeking for economic and political progress as a nation, we all go up or else all go down as one people.

Seek not the favor of the multitude; it is seldom got by honest and lawful means. But seek the testimony of few; and number not voices, but weigh them.

Work alone is noble.

Mine is better than ours.

I think Americans generally are not used to working very hard, in terms of working for the collective. I think in our country we have taken individualism to its farthest reaches, possibly.

Republicans are for both the man and the dollar, but in case of conflict the man before the dollar.

What is a rebel? A man who says no: but whose refusal does not imply a renunciation.