Individualism Quotes - Page 5

• perhaps, if one wishes to remain an individual in the midst of the teeming multitudes, one must make oneself grotesque.

  Salman Rushdie

  Wish, Conformity, Midst

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• The old man, of whom we know how he has become what he is, is more of an individual than the young man; for it is only in the course of an eventful life that men are differentiated into full individuality.

  Erich Auerbach

  Men, Individuality, Young

  Erich Auerbach, Edward W. Said (2013). “Mimesis: The Representation of Reality in Western Literature”, p.18, Princeton University Press

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• The day of combination is here to stay. Individualism has gone, never to return.

  John D. Rockefeller

  Gone, Return, Combination

  John D. Rockefeller (2015). “John D. Rockefeller on Making Money: Advice and Words of Wisdom on Building and Sharing Wealth”, p.8, Skyhorse Publishing, Inc.

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• Individualism has come in for an enormous amount of criticism over the years. It still does. It is widely assumed to be synonymous with selfishness...But the main reason why so many people in power have always disliked individualism is because it is individualists who are ever keenest to prevent the abuse of authority.

  Margaret Thatcher

  Years, People, Abuse

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• Who would you be but who you are?

  Terry Brooks

  Who You Are

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• America is still a frontier country of wide open spaces. Our closeness to nature is one reason why our problem is not repression but regression; our notorious violence is the constant eruption of primi-tiveness, of anarchic individualism.

  Camille Paglia

  Country, America, Space

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• I was also fortunate that I was raised in a part of the world, West Texas, where individualism is strong.

  George W. Bush

  Strong, Texas, World

  Source: www.aarp.org

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• Never before has the seductive market way of life held such sway in nearly every sphere of American life. This marketing way of life promotes addictions to stimulation and obsessions with comfort and convenience ... centered primarily around bodily pleasures and status rankings. ... The common denominator is a rugged and ragged individualism and rapacious hedonism in quest of a perennial "high" in body and mind.

  Cornel West

  Addiction, Seductive, Black History

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• American poetry, like American painting, is always personal with an emphasis on the individuality of the poet.

  Diane Wakoski

  Individuality, Literature, Painting

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• "Freedom, individualism, authenticity and being yourself so long as you don't hurt another's physical person or property: Sustained success comes only when you take what's unique about you and figure out how to make it useful!"

  Marcus Buckingham

  Being Yourself, Art, Hurt

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• A work of art is the unique result of a unique temperament. Its beauty comes from the fact that the author is what he is. ...Art is the most intense mode of Individualism that the world has known. I am inclined to say that it is the only real mode of Individualism that the world has known. ...Art is Individualism.

  Oscar Wilde

  Art, Real, Unique

  Oscar Wilde (1969). “The Artist as Critic: Critical Writings of Oscar Wilde”, p.270, University of Chicago Press

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• Does any art have a practical value? People love to talk about how expensive a painting is. That's the only way we can talk about paintings in this century.

  John Guare

  Art, People, Doe

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• In general, democracy and individualism have advanced in spite of and often against specific economic interest. Both democracy and individualism have been based upon financial sacrifice, not gain. Even in Athens, a large part of the 7,000 citizens who participated regularly in assemblies were farmers who had to give up several days' work to go into town to talk and listen.

  John Ralston Saul

  Giving Up, Sacrifice, Democracy

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• As we seek to eliminate individualism in teaching, we should not eradicate individuality with it.

  Andy Hargreaves

  Leadership, Teaching, Learning

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• In Europe the parents are included as with children. All three generations are together. I'm thinking of Italy. You go out on a Sunday afternoon and the whole family is there.

  Dana Delany

  Children, Sunday, Thinking

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• You know, our sense of individuality is just the number one target of civilization.

  Alan Rudolph

  Civilization, Numbers, Individuality

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• The older I get, the more individuality I find in animals and the less I find in humans.

  Chuck Jones

  Animal, Individuality, Humans

  "Personal Quotes/ Biography". www.imdb.com.

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• The best thing you've got going for you is individuality.

  Richard Thompson

  Individuality, Best Things

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• We seek true individuality and the true individuals. But we find them not. For lo, we mortals see what our poor eyes can see; and they, the true individuals, - they belong not to this world of our merely human sense and thought.

  Josiah Royce

  Eye, Individuality, World

  Josiah Royce (1952). “The Religious Philosophy of Josiah Royce; Edited, with an Introductory Essay, by Stuart Gerry Brown”

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• There was just this amazing individuality. It's just a whole different world of optimism and fearlessness, women taking off their bras and dancing around naked, and a political hopefulness and involvement.

  Jill Clayburgh

  Dancing, Optimism, Political

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• Moreover, the abundance of chemical compounds and their importance in daily life hindered the chemist from investigating the question, in what does the individuality of the atoms of different elements consist.

  Johannes Stark

  Individuality, Doe, Different

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• Rather than ennobling the public mind and cementing the social fabric, applied science speedily became the chief weapon of a gross individualism, which was anathema to the frugal and righteous (John Quincy) Adams, the source of enormous fortunes divorced from duty, the instrument of unscrupulous ambition and rapacious materialism. Presently, it came to scar the very of the country which Adams loved, a disfiguring process uninterrupted since his day.

  Russell Kirk

  Country, Ambition, Mind

  Russell Kirk (2001). “The Conservative Mind: From Burke to Eliot”, p.237, Regnery Publishing

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• The thing is, I'm a very practical filmmaker.

  Stanley Tucci

  Filmmaker, Practicals

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• We are the universe pretending to be individuals.

  Deepak Chopra

  Individual, Pretending, Universe

  "Deepak Chopra Discusses 'How to Know God'". "Larry King Live", transcripts.cnn.com. May 17, 2000.

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• You have to ask yourself, 'Who owns me? Do I own myself or am I just another piece of government property?'

  Neal Boortz

  Government, Pieces, Property

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