Individualism Quotes - Page 15

• There is no individualism in Eastern or oral cultures.

  Marshall McLuhan

  Culture, Eastern

  "Laws of Media: The New Science". Book by Marshall McLuhan, co-written with Eric McLuhan, p. 60, 1988.

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• When you're not playing up to your capability, you gotta try everything, to motivate, to get them going. All of them have to be on the same end of the rope to pull together. It's playing for the name on the front of the shirt, not the back. Individualism gets you trophies and plaques. Play for the front, that wins championships. I try to remind them of that.

  Tommy Lasorda

  Winning, Play, Names

  "Q&A: Tommy Lasorda talks food, baseball and motivation, as only Mr. Dodger can". Interview with Tom Hoffarth, www.dailynews.com. July 15, 2013.

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• The great Christian art did not die because all possible forms had been used up; it died because faith was being transformed into piety. Now, the same conquest of the outside world that brought in our modern individualism, so different from that of the Renaissance, is by way of relativizing the individual. It is plain to see that man's faculty of transformation, which began by a remaking of the natural world, has ended by calling man himself into question.

  Andre Malraux

  Christian, Art, Men

  "The Voices of Silence". Book by Andre Malraux, Doubleday, Part IV, Chapter VI, 1953.

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• What we call the freedom of the individual is not just the luxury of one intellectual to write what he likes to write but his being a voice which can speak for those who are silent.

  Stephen Spender

  Writing, Voice, Luxury

  Stephen Spender (1978). “The thirties and after: poetry, politics, people 1933-1970”, Random House Inc

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• Socialism, whether it's the 'soft tyranny' of the EuroAmerican management state or the murderously repressive forms taken by Hitler, Stalin, Mao, or Pol Pot, is all about disindividuation, a steady, relentless erasure of the individual differences among us, everything that makes us who we are. 'Everybody in, nobody out!' is the marching mantra of militant collectivized medicine, but it accurately describes all other aspects of collectivism as well. No alternatives allowed, no choices, no individualism, no individuality, and ultimately, no individuation.

  L. Neil Smith

  Taken, Individual Differences, Medicine

  "Back to the Trees!". The Libertarian Enterprise, www.ncc-1776.org. April 11, 2010.

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• To require conformity in the appreciation of sentiments or the interpretation of language, or uniformity of thought, feeling, or action, is a fundamental error in human legislation -- a madness which would be only equaled by requiring all men to possess the same countenance, the same voice or the same stature.

  Josiah Warren

  Appreciation, Men, Errors

  Josiah Warren (1849). “Equitable Commerce: A New Development of Principles for the Harmoneous Adjustment and Regulation of the Pecuniary,intellectual,and Moral Intercourse of Mankind,proposed as Elements of New Society”, p.5

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• Vitality springs from diversity -- which makes for real progress so long as there is mutual toleration, based on the recognition that worse may come from an attempt to suppress differences than from acceptance of them. For this reason, the kind of peace that makes progress possible is best assured by the mutual checks created by a balance of forces-alike in the sphere of internal politics and of international relations.

  B. H. Liddell Hart

  Peace, Spring, Real

  B.H. Liddell Hart (2015). “Why Don't We Learn from History?”, p.77, Lulu Press, Inc

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• If, of course, one builds into the concept of an 'individual' all that Professor Hayek does in his Road To Serfdom, Individualism and Economic Order and many other works, which is, to put it briefly, the whole of laisser-faire economic theory, then plainly man as such a programmed predator has very little interest in being fraternal, or very little chance.

  Bernard Crick

  Men, Order, Doe

  Bernard Crick (1993). “In Defense of Politics”, p.234, University of Chicago Press

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• Corporation: a miniature totalitarian state governed by a hierarchy of unelected officials who take a dim view of individualism, free speech, equality and eggheads. The backbone of all Western democracies.

  Rick Bayan

  Views, Democracy, Speech

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• Whatever open-border libertarians think about immigration law, once the immigration scofflaw steals, trespasses, or vandalizes private property, said alien is guilty of crimes. To say, moreover, that the state's laws made masses of men and women commit such crimes is to voice the philosophy of determinism, not individualism.

  Ilana Mercer

  Philosophy, Men, Thinking

  "That Spot Of Bother On The Border". www.wnd.com. May 04, 2007.

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• Competitive individualism militates against the experience of community, and that lack of community is a centrally important factor in contemporaneous anxiety.

  Rollo May

  Responsibility, Community, Anxiety

  Rollo May (2015). “The Meaning of Anxiety”, p.132, W. W. Norton & Company

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• The [classical] liberal, of course, does not deny that there are some superior people -- he is not an egalitarian -- but he denies that anyone has authority to decide who these superior people are.

  Friedrich August von Hayek

  People, Doe, Authority

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• a society driven mainly by selfish individualism has all the potential for sustainability of a collection of angry scorpions in a bottle.

  David Ehrenfeld

  Selfish, Scorpions, Bottles

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• In one and the same human being there are cognitions that, however utterly dissimilar they are, yet have one and the same object,so that one can only conclude that there are different subjects in one and the same human being.

  Franz Kafka

  Experience, Different, Cognition

  Franz Kafka (1954). “Wedding preparations in the country: and other posthumous prose writings. With notes by Max Brod”

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• It is interesting to note that the "sexual revolution" was sometimes portrayed as a communal utopia, whereas in fact it was simply another stage in the historical rise of individualism. As the lovely word "household" suggests, the couple and the family would be the last bastion of primitive communism in liberal society. The sexual revolution was to destroy these intermediary communities, the last to separate the individual from the market. The destruction continues to this day.

  Michel Houellebecq

  Couple, Interesting, Community

  "The Elementary Particles". Book by Michel Houellebecq, August 24, 1998.

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• I have always found it quaint and rather touching that there is a movement [Libertarians] in the US that thinks Americans are not yet selfish enough.

  Christopher Hitchens

  Selfish, Thinking, Touching

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• Individuality doesn't just mean individualism-standing alone. It means developing one's unique gifts, and being able to share them for the enjoyment of oneself and others.

  Frances Moore Lappé

  Mean, Unique, Community

  Frances Moore Lappé (1991). “Rediscovering America's Values”

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• Always be a first-rate version of yourself.

  Audrey Hepburn

  Inspirational, Graduation, Bullying

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

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• When there is no room for individualism in ballparks, then there will be no room for individualism in life.

  Bill Veeck

  Baseball, Rooms, Ballparks

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

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• In the practical art of war, the best thing of all is to take the enemy's country whole and intact; to shatter and destroy it is not so good.

  Sun Tzu

  Country, Art, War

  Sun Tzu, Sun Zi, Lionel Giles (2006). “The Art of War”, p.13, Filiquarian Publishing, LLC.

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• The form of government that is most suitable to the artist is no government at all. ... One might point out how the Renaissance was great, because it sought to solve no social problem, and busied itself not about such things, but suffered the individual to develop freely, beautifully, and naturally, and so had great and individual artists, and great, individual men. One might point out how Louis XIV, by creating the modern state, destroyed the individualism of the artist.

  Oscar Wilde

  Artist, Men, Creating

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• You don't become a saint until you lead a good life whether in Tibet or Italy or America.

  Kenneth Rexroth

  Good Life, America, Saint

  Interview with Jerome Rothenberg and David Antin, jacketmagazine.com. April 1958.

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• Moving from Wales to Italy is like moving to a different country.

  Ian Rush

  Funny, Country, Moving

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• Individualism has really the higher aim. Modern morality consists in accepting the standard of one's age.

  Oscar Wilde

  Age, Ethics, Morality

  Oscar Wilde (2015). “The Picture of Dorian Gray (with an Essay by Jules Barbey D'Aurevilly)”, p.50, Mondial

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• Who among us will celebrate Christmas correctly? Whoever finally lays down all power, l honor, all reputation, all vanity, all arrogance, all individualism beside the manger; whoever remains lowly and lets God alone be high; whoever looks at the child in the manger and sees the glory of God precisely in his lowliness.

  Dietrich Bonhoeffer

  Letting Go, Children, Vanity

  Dietrich Bonhoeffer (2012). “God Is in the Manger: Reflections on Advent and Christmas”, p.26, Westminster John Knox Press

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