Individualism Quotes - Page 6

• As long as man remains an inquiring animal, there can never be a complete unanimity in our fundamental beliefs. The more diverse our paths, the greater is likely to be the divergence of beliefs.

  Arthur Keith

  Faith, Respect, Learning

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• Art is individualism, and individualism is a disturbing and disintegrating force. There lies its immense value. For what it seeks is to disturb monotony of type, slavery of custom, tyranny of habit, and the reduction of man to the level of a machine. It seeks to show new perspectives and other choices. It is a way to help expand and liberate the consciousness; our experiences, understandings, imaginings, options and thereby our lives.

  Oscar Wilde

  Art, Lying, Men

  "The Soul of Man under Socialism". Book by Oscar Wilde, 1891.

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

  Andy Hargreaves

  Leadership, Teaching, Learning

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• The public school system: "Usually a twelve year sentence of mind control. Crushing creativity, smashing individualism, encouraging collectivism and compromise, destroying the exercise of intellectual inquiry, twisting it instead into meek subservience to authority." - Walter Karp, Editor Harper's Magazine
  The ground of liberty is to be gained by inches, and we must be contented to secure what we can get from time to time and eternally press forward for what is yet to get. It takes time to persuade men to do even what is for their own good.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Crush, Creativity, School

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• I am now a fundamentalist American; give me time and I will tell you why individualism, laissez-faire and the slightly restrained anarchy of capitalism offer the best opportunities for the development of the human spirit.

  Rose Wilder Lane

  Opportunity, Giving, Laissez Faire Capitalism

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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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• The important part of Marxism was its demand for active, constant, practical, class-war

  Francis Parker Yockey

  War, Class, Important

  Francis Parker Yockey (2013). “Imperium: The Philosophy of History and Politics”, p.118, The Palingenesis Project (Wermod and Wermod Publishing Group)

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• Satire exists for the purpose of killing the social being [for the sake of] the true individual, the real human being.

  D. H. Lawrence

  Real, Society, Purpose

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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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• Collectivists would have you believe that individualism is merely another word for selfishness, because individualists oppose welfare and other forms of coercive redistribution of wealth, but just the opposite is true. Individualists advocate true charity, which is the voluntary giving of their own money, while collectivists advocate the coercive giving of other people's money; which, of course, is why it is so popular.

  G. Edward Griffin

  Believe, Opposites, People

  "The Chasm: The Future Is Calling (Part One)". Essay by G. Edward Griffin, 2003.

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• Individuality is to be preserved and respected everywhere, as the root of everything good.

  Jean Paul

  Respect, Responsibility, Roots

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• The church is challenging such negative cultural elements as superstition, rugged individualism, materialism, hedonism, permissiveness and utilitarianism.

  Francis Arinze

  Challenges, Church, Negative

  "Arinze Sees Fundamentalism Posing Bar to Interfaith Relations". www.beliefnet.com. December 2001.

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• And just because God attains and wins and finds this uniqueness all our lives win in our union with him the individuality which is essential to their true meaning.

  Josiah Royce

  Winning, Individuality, Essentials

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

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• The Court is perhaps one of the last citadels of jealously preserved individualism. For the most part, we function as nine, small independent law firms.

  Colin Powell

  Independent, Law, Nine

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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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• A man's rights are not violated by a private individual's refusal to deal with him.

  Ayn Rand

  Men, Rights, Refusal

  Ayn Rand (1988). “The Ayn Rand Lexicon: Objectivism from A to Z”, p.406, Penguin

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• The meaning ascribed in popular usage to the word 'selfishness' is not merely wrong: it represents a devastating intellectual 'package-deal,' which is responsible, more than any other single factor, for the arrested moral development of mankind.

  Ayn Rand

  Moral Development, Intellectual, Selfishness

  Ayn Rand (1964). “The Virtue of Selfishness”, p.7, Penguin

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• This right to life, this right to liberty, and this right to pursue one's happiness is unabashedly individualistic, without in the slightest denying at the same time our thoroughly social nature. It's only that our social relations, while vital to us all, must be chosen - that is what makes the crucial difference.

  Tibor R. Machan

  Differences, Liberty, Social

  "Collectivist Thinking Is Rife in the USA". www.strike-the-root.com. March 01, 2004.

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• [Altruism] is a moral system which holds that man has no right to exist for his own sake, that service to others is the sole justification of his existence, and that self-sacrifice is his highest moral duty, value and virtue. This is the moral base of collectivism, of all dictatorships.

  Ayn Rand

  Sacrifice, Men, Self

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• So the old Copenhagen interpretation needs to be generalized, needs to be replaced by something that can be used for the whole universe, and can be used also in cases where there is plenty of individuality and history

  Murray Gell-Mann

  Individuality, Needs, Copenhagen

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