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• The 'nations,' as they are called, with whom our pretended ambassadors, secretaries, presidents, and senators profess to make treaties, are as much myths as our own. On general principles of law and reason, there are no such 'nations.' ... Our pretended treaties, then, being made with no legitimate or bona fide nations, or representatives of nations, and being made, on our part, by persons who have no legitimate authority to act for us, have intrinsically no more validity than a pretended treaty made by the Man in the Moon with the king of the Pleiades.

  Lysander Spooner

  Kings, Moon, Men

  Lysander Spooner (1971). “The collected works of Lysander Spooner”

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• I got the idea [for Anthem's theme] in my school days, in Soviet Russia, when I heard all the vicious attacks on individualism, and asked myself what the world would be like if men lost the word 'I.'

  Ayn Rand

  School, Men, Russia

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• Conservatives or better, pro-corporate apologists hijacked the vocabulary of Jeffersonian liberalism and turned words like "progress," "opportunity," and "individualism" into tools for making the plunder of America sound like divine right. This "degenerate and unlovely age," as one historian calls it, exists in the mind of Karl Rove the reputed brain of George W. Bush as the seminal age of inspiration for politics and governance of America today.

  Bill Moyers

  Inspiration, Opportunity, Divine Right

  Speech to the "Take Back America" Conference, June 10, 2003.

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• Every device employed to bolster individual freedom must have as its chief purpose the impairment of the absoluteness of power. The indications are that such an impairment is brought about not by strengthening the individual and pitting him against the possessors of power, but by distributing and diversifying power and pitting one category or unit of power against the other. Where power is one, the defeated individual, however strong and resourceful, can have no refuge and no recourse.

  Eric Hoffer

  Strong, Power, Purpose

  Eric Hoffer (1982). “Between the Devil and the Dragon: The Best Essays and Aphorisms of Eric Hoffer”, HarperCollins Publishers

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• The duel between Christianity and atheism is the most important in the world, and the struggle between individualism and collectivism is the same struggle reproduced on another level.

  William F. Buckley, Jr.

  Struggle, Important, Atheism

  William F. Buckley Jr. (2010). “Athwart History: Half a Century of Polemics, Animadversions, and Illuminations: A William F. Buckley Jr. Omnibus”, p.16, Encounter Books

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• The argument for collectivism is simple if false; it is an immediate emotional argument. The argument for individualism is subtle and sophisticated; it is an indirect rational argument. And the emotional faculties are more highly developed in most men than the rational, paradoxically or especially even in those who regard themselves as intellectuals.

  Milton Friedman

  Simple, Men, Emotional

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• It is not very practical in today’s world when you tour all over the place having a big band.

  Andy Summers

  Band, World, Today

  "Andy Summer The Police Interview From Noise11.com Archives". Interview with Paul Cashmere, www.noise11.com. April 25, 2016.

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• It is more difficult to designate this form of conation on its practical side by a satisfactory name.

  Samuel Alexander

  Names, Sides, Form

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• When three liberals get together they form a new party; that is their idea of individualism. They never join a bowling club without introducing as part of the 'agenda' an 'amendment of the statutes.

  Oswald Spengler

  Party, Ideas, Together

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• For the stage displays the first vigorous expression, as the natural thing and without conspicuous restraint, of private individuality.

  Lascelles Abercrombie

  Expression, Individuality, Firsts

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• The American Dream was not about government's taking huge sums of money (under the label of "taxation") from citizens by force. The American Dream was about individualism and the opportunity to achieve success without interference from others.

  Robert Ringer

  Dream, Opportunity, Government

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• We need to tap the resource of current and retiring science and math professionals that have both content mastery and the practical experience to serve as effective teachers.

  Cathy McMorris Rodgers

  Teacher, Retirement, Math

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• I was offered a free villa in Hollywood, but I said no thank you, I prefer to live in Italy.

  Ennio Morricone

  Thank You, Hollywood, Villa

  "Mozart of film music" by Adam Sweeting, www.theguardian.com. February 22, 2001.

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• The balance of private good and general welfare is at the bottom of civilized morals but the morals of the Heroic Age are founded on individuality, and on nothing else.

  Lascelles Abercrombie

  Individuality, Balance, Age

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• The 19th century was the age of Individualism the 20th and 21st are the ages of Socialism.

  Francis Parker Yockey

  Age, Socialism, Century

  Francis Parker Yockey (2013). “Imperium: The Philosophy of History and Politics”, p.112, The Palingenesis Project (Wermod and Wermod Publishing Group)

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• The flight from study and awareness is much too common in a world that throws too many confusing pictures to the individual. For the sake of our democracy, based on freedom and individualism, we have to bring ourselves back to study again and again. Otherwise, we can become easy victims of a well-planned verbal attack on our minds and our consciences.

  Joost Meerloo

  Freedom, Confusing, Mind

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• Our emotional symptoms are precious sources of life and individuality.

  Thomas More

  Emotional, Individuality, Source

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• Our problem isn't that we're individualists. It's that our individualism is static rather than dynamic. We value what we think rather than what we do. We forget that we haven't done, or been, what we thought; that the first function of life is action, just as the first property of things is motion.

  Fernando Pessoa

  Thinking, Done, Firsts

  Fernando Pessoa, Richard Zenith (2002). “The Selected Prose of Fernando Pessoa”, p.304, Grove Press

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• We love the indomitable bellicose patriotism that sets you apart; we love the national pride that guides your muscularly courageous race; we love the potent individualism that doesn't prevent you from opening your arms to individualists of every land, whether libertarians or anarchists.

  Filippo Tommaso Marinetti

  Pride, Race, Land

  "Futurist Speech to the English". Lecture at the Lyceum Club of London in 1910. "Marinetti: Selected Writings", 1972.

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• In a society in which individualism is becoming rampant, people more and more believe that they are the center of the world. Such a belief system makes individual failure almost inconsolable.

  Martin Seligman

  Believe, People, World

  "Learned Optimism: How to Change Your Mind and Your Life". Book by Martin Seligman, August 10, 2011.

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• I was a star in Italy, Austrailia, Germany and Japan before the American stations ever paid attention at all.

  Nancy Sinatra

  Stars, Japan, Germany

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• The cult of individuality and personality, which promotes painters and poets only to promote itself, is really a business. The greater the 'genius' of the personage, the greater the profit.

  George Grosz

  Personality, Individuality, Genius

  George Grosz, Heartfield, Wieland Herzfelde (1987). “Art Is in Danger”

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• In Jefferson's mind democracy was tantamount to extreme individualism.

  Herbert Croly

  Mind, Democracy, Literature

  Herbert Croly (2005). “The Promise of American Life”, p.43, Cosimo, Inc.

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• Among other grand achievements, F. A. Hayek had a remarkable career pointing out the flaws in collectivism. One of his keenest insights was that, paradoxically, any collectivist system necessarily depends on one individual (or small group) to make key social and economic decisions. In contrast, a system based on individualism takes advantage of the aggregate, or 'collective,' information of the whole society; through his actions each participant contributes his own particular, if incomplete, knowledge-information that could never be tapped by the individual at the head of a collectivist state.

  Sheldon Richman

  Keys, Incomplete Knowledge, Careers

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• It was the spirit animating the mass and flowing from it, and it expressed the individuality of the building.

  Louis Sullivan

  Design, Individuality, Spirit

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