Individualism Quotes - Page 8

• Abundance is rooted in community, not individualism. Abundance is what is before our eyes, but we cannot see when we are blinded by greed.

  Terry Tempest Williams

  Eye, Community, Greed

  "Exclusive: Terry Tempest Williams On Sacred Rage, Abundance, and the Upcoming White House Tar Sands Pipeline Action". Interview with Jerry Cope, www.huffingtonpost.com. August 17, 2011.

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• To a certain extent, this tour is a celebration of individuality and that you can invent and reinvent yourself. You should have the power to be able to do that. Sexuality is a part of that. It should release you. It doesn't have to be an issue. It shouldn't box you in.

  Neil Tennant

  Should Have, Issues, Individuality

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

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• In America, the stories we tell ourselves and we tell each other in fiction have to do with individualism. Every person here is the center of his or her own story. And our job as people and as characters is to find our own motivations and desires, to overcome conflicts and obstacles toward defining ourselves so that we grow and change.

  Adam Johnson

  Jobs, Motivation, Character

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• There is no happiness, there is no liberty, there is no enjoyment of life, unless a man can say, when he rises in the morning, I shall be subject to the decision of no unwise judge today.

  Daniel Webster

  Happiness, Morning, Men

  Speech, New York, N.Y., 24 Mar. 1831

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• The aged love what is practical while impetuous youth longs only for what is dazzling.

  Petrarch

  Love, Youth, Practicals

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• The kind of group mentality that we had lived under since the Second World War is starting to erupt, and the craving for individualism is now much stronger. It's not as taboo anymore, as it was when I was younger.

  Nicolas Winding Refn

  War, Stronger, Groups

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• A form of conservatism that makes clear we have problems in this country, it's not just about individualism, we have to help people who feel they're being failed by the system.

  Damian Green

  Country, People, Helping

  "Boris Johnson says he is out of Tory party leadership race after Gove challenge - as it happened" by Andrew Sparrow, Haroon Siddique, Nadia Khomami and Chris Johnston, www.theguardian.com. June 30, 2016.

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• Individualism is bad for business - though absolutely necessary for freedom, progressive knowledge, and any possible interface with the transcendent.

  Tom Robbins

  Progressive, Interfaces, Transcendent

  "The Syntax of Sorcery: An Interview with Tom Robbins". Interview with Tony Vigorito, realitysandwich.com. June 6, 2012.

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• Just recognizing and naming that many of the things we treat as historical fact are stories can help erode their power over our sense of identity and thinking. If they are stories rather than "truth," we can write new stories that better represent the country we aspire to be. Our new stories can be about diverse people working together to overcome challenges and make life better for all, about figuring out how to live sustainably on this one planet we share, and on deep respect for cooperation, fairness, and equity instead of promoting hyper-competitive individualism.

  Annie Leonard

  Country, Writing, Thinking

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• I don't think my father had a direct influence on me, but I do think, more or less, I was influenced by his independent individualism. And the kind of condition he had when he was in this society - the kind of mistreatment society gave him.

  Ai Weiwei

  Father, Independent, Thinking

  Interview with Claudine Ko, www.mcsweeneys.net. March 7, 2013.

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• The UDHR has become an iconic document over the course of more than six decades, the starting point for discussions of whether or not the rights as set forth are truly universal or slanted to reflect the hegemony of Western values, especially those associated with liberal individualism.

  Richard A. Falk

  Western Values, Rights, Six

  Source: www.counterpunch.org

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• The globalists, the Democrats, the collectivists, hate anybody who's conservative, anybody that believes in the individual. And, the fact is, those people promote individualism, nationalism, and that's why they've got to be eradicated. What a horrible world if the system is successful.

  Alex Jones

  Hate, Believe, Successful

  Source: noworldorder.com

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• We can have intellectual individualism and the rich cultural diversities that we owe to exceptional minds only at the price of occasional eccentricity and abnormal attitudes. When they are so harmless to others or to the State as those we deal with here, the prices is not too great. But freedom to differ is not limited to things that do not matter much. That would be a mere shadow of freedom. The test of its substance is the right to differ as to things that touch the heart of the existing order.

  Robert H. Jackson

  Attitude, Heart, Order

  "West Virginia State Board of Education v. Barnette, 319 U.S. 641-42". 1943.

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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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• 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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• I just wanted to get back to playing attacking football after my time in Italy. It was a little difficult at first but the atmosphere and the fans were just fantastic.

  Dennis Bergkamp

  Sports, Football, Atmosphere

  Interview with Donald McRae, www.theguardian.com. April 18, 2004.

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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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• I've always said, rather glibly, that the message of my career has been about individualism, about getting to know yourself and taking responsibility, not just for what you do, but what you think.

  Todd Rundgren

  Responsibility, Thinking, Know Yourself

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• We're facing a crisis that we have not provoked, yet we are the main victims of the greatest crisis since the 1930s. It's not been generated by factors external to the system, but by factors that are of the very essence of the system: exacerbated individualism, deregulation, competition, and so on.

  Rafael Correa

  Competition, Victim, Crisis

  Source: progressive.org

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• "Consider the matter dispassionately, Mr. Foster, and you will see that no offence is so heinous as unorthodoxy of behaviour. Murder kills only the individual- and after all, wha is an individual? ". . . ." We can make a new one with the greatest of ease- as many as we like. Unorthodoxy threatens more than the life of a mere individual; it strikes at Society itself."

  Aldous Huxley

  Behaviour, Ease, Matter

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• If our dreams were more regular, more connected, more stable, they would also have more practical importance for us.

  Ernst Mach

  Dream, Importance, Connected

  Ernst Mach (1914). “The Analysis of Sensations, and the Relation of the Physical to the Psychical”

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• Jean's whole job is to protect Victoria. Jean is a very practical, very orderly, very disciplined person; she is the personality called the gatekeeper.

  Erika Slezak

  Jobs, Personality, Gatekeepers

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• Each individual fact, taken by itself, can indeed arouse our curiosity or our astonishment, or be useful to us in its practical applications.

  Hermann von Helmholtz

  Taken, Curiosity, Astonishment

  Hermann von Helmholtz, David Cahan (1995). “Science and Culture: Popular and Philosophical Essays”, p.97, University of Chicago Press

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• In such a condition of affairs, the practical difference between the abolitionist and the sympathizer, to the man who lost his slave and could not recover it, was very nebulous.

  John Sergeant Wise

  Men, Differences, Affair

  John Sergeant Wise, Paul Dennis Sporer (2005). “End of an Era: The Last Days of Traditional Southern Culture as Seen Through the Eyes of a Young Confederate Soldier”, p.80, Anza Publishing

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• Peter Kropotkin described Anarchism as the extreme left wing of socialism - a view with which I completely agree. One of my deepest concerns today is that the libertarian socialist core will be eroded by fashionable, post- modernist, spiritualist, mystic individualism.

  Murray Bookchin

  Views, Wings, Libertarian

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