Art is the most intense mode of individualism that the world has known.
Individualism regards man-every man-as an independent, sovereign entity who possesses an inalienable right to his own life, a right derived from his nature as a rational being.
The function of the society is to cultivate the individual. It is not the function of the individual to support society.
You have your way. I have my way. As for the right way, the correct way, and the only way, it does not exist.
Good and just society is neither the thesis of capitalism nor the antithesis of communism, but a socially conscious democracy which reconciles the truths of individualism and collectivism.
If a man is not faithful to his own individuality, he cannot be loyal to anything.
For too long in this society, we have celebrated unrestrained individualism over common community.
The best things and best people rise out of their separateness; I'm against a homogenized society because I want the cream to rise.
No society can possibly be built on a denial of individual freedom.
More and more, when faced with the world of men, the only reaction is one of individualism. Man alone is an end unto himself. Everything one tries to do for the common good ends in failure.
Individualism, the love of enterprise, and the pride in personal freedom, have been deemed by Americans not only as their choicest, but their peculiar and exclusive possessions.
Individual rights are not subject to a public vote; a majority has no right to vote away the rights of a minority.
In bourgeois society capital is independent and has individuality, while the living person is dependent and has no individuality.
Do not make the mistake of the ignorant who think that an individualist is a man who says: “I’ll do as I please at everybody else’s expense.” An individualist is a man who recognizes the inalienable individual rights of man—his own and those of others.
Individuality is the aim of political liberty. By leaving to the citizen as much freedom of action and of being as comports with order and the rights of others, the institutions render him truly a freeman. He is left to pursue his means of happiness in his own manner.
In a society that tries to standardize thinking, individuality is not highly prized.
We are not on the way to greater individualism, but are becoming an increasingly manipulated mass civilization.
The deepest problems of modern life derive from the claim of the individual to preserve the autonomy and individuality of his existence in the face of overwhelming social forces, of historical heritage, of external culture, and of the technique of life.
Resistance to the organized mass can be effected only by the man who is as well organized in his individuality as the mass itself.
In the age of the individual's liquidation, the question of individuality must be raised anew.
The surest defense against Evil is extreme individualism, originality of thinking, whimsicality, even - if you will - eccentricity. That is, something that can't be feigned, faked, imitated; something even a seasoned imposter couldn't be happy with.
Individualism regards man - every man - as an independent, sovereign entity who possesses an inalienable right to his own life, a right derived from his nature as a rational being. Individualism holds that a civilized society, or any form of association, cooperation or peaceful co-existence among men, can be achieved only on the basis of the recognition of individual rights - and that a group, as such, has no rights other than the individual rights of its members.
We are in a period of such individualism that one no longer speaks of disciples; one speaks of thieves.
The four cornerstones of character on which the structure of this nation was built are: Initiative, Imagination, Individuality and Independence.
Non-conformism is the major, perhaps the only, sin of our time.
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