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It is open to question whether the highly individualized characters we find in Shakespeare are perhaps not detrimental to the dramatic effect. The human being disappears to the same degree as the individual emerges.

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

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.

Much of the discussion about socialism and individualism is entirely pointless, because of failure to agree on terminology.

Liberty is not collective, it is personal. All liberty is individual liberty.

Libertarianism is rejected by the modern left - which preaches individualism but practices collectivism. Capitalism is rejected by the modern right-which preaches enterprise but practices protectionism.

Liberty in Islam is the liberty to be a Muslim, democracy likewise, individualism likewise.

Methodological individualism is the doctrine that psychological states are individuated with respect to their causal powers.

Resistance to the organized mass can be effected only by the man who is as well organized in his individuality as the mass itself.

Non-conformism is the major, perhaps the only, sin of our time.

No one should part with their individuality and become that of another.

Our emotional symptoms are precious sources of life and individuality.

Patriotism is the opposite of selfish individualism.

My talk show takes place in bed, in Italy.

Progressivism is usually seen as a stepping back from individualism into a progressive community...

Punk has always been about doing things your own way. What it represents for me is ultimate freedom and a sense of individuality.

Systematic philosophical and practical anti-intellectualism such as we are witnessing appears to be something truly novel in the history of human culture.

Singularity is only pardonable in old age and retirement; I may now be as singular as I please, but you may not.

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

Technical know-how of the experts must be transformed into practical do-how of the people.

The distinctive principle of Western social philosophy is individualism.

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

The anarchist painter is not the one who will create anarchist pictures, but the one who will fight with all his individuality against official conventions.

The artist makes things concrete and gives them individuality.

The best thing you've got going for you is individuality.

The intellectually sophisticated person is indifferent to all genuine individuality, because relationships and reactions result from it which cannot be exhausted with logical operations.

The increased presence of Muslims in Italy and in Europe is directly proportional to our loss of freedom.

The intrinsic social structure, the family structure and so forth, is certainly in a very bad state. And I think that this is showing up in productivity. I think part of the reason, and I can't prove this, we're seeing a decline in some places is the breakup of the family, which is partly the result of an extreme form of individualism.

The longer mathematics lives the more abstract - and therefore, possibly also the more practical - it becomes.

The most practical kind of politics is the politics of decency.

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.

The older I get, the more individuality I find in animals and the less I find in humans.

The old man, of whom we know how he has become what he is, is more of an individual than the young man; for it is only in the course of an eventful life that men are differentiated into full individuality.

The psychological basis of the metropolitan type of individuality consists in the intensification of nervous stimulation which results from the swift and uninterrupted change of outer and inner stimuli.

The Public provides freedom...Individualism begins after the roads are built, after individualists have had an education, after medical research has cured their diseases.

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.

There's been a boiling down of real emotion into a set pattern instead of individualism.

The social problem of the twentieth century is whether civilized nations can restore themselves to sanity after their nineteenth-century aberrations of individualism and capitalism.

The unity of a nation's spirit and will are worth far more than the freedom of the spirit and will of an individual; and that the higher interests involved in the life of the whole must here set the limits and lay down the duties of the interests of the individual.

The straight line is godless and immoral. The straight line is not a creative line, it is a duplicating line, an imitating line.

What's natural and right is to go with the energy of how it all has to work together. What's natural and right is interconnectedness, not individualism. What is natural and right is respect for the system, not killing the system. What's natural and right is love.

To be a socialist is to submit the I to the thou; socialism is sacrificing the individual to the whole.

We are the universe pretending to be individuals.

To this day the Arab influence is evident in southern Italy, northern Africa and, above all, in Spain.

We are in a period of such individualism that one no longer speaks of disciples; one speaks of thieves.

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.

You have to ask yourself, 'Who owns me? Do I own myself or am I just another piece of government property?'

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

A farmer can toil harder when a respite is promised at the end of the day and a feat at the end of the year. In the same manner, a human can live ferociously because death is promised at the end. “Teacher, what do you mean by the feat and rest? What is the relationship between?” The teacher answers, “forgetfulness, of every labor and sweats, and of himself in that condition.” Winter becomes bearable by the presence of forthcoming greens, marriage by children, letters by knowledge, urban by nature and canticle by beauty.

Adrian kom denna klara höst till socialisterna, dit varje ung individualist kommer, då han vill söka uttrycket för sin individualism, utan att finna det. Människan vill aristokrati. Den fattigaste arbetare älskar djupast sett endast lyxkvinnan, som bäst förkroppsligar hans kvinnoideal, står över hans förnuft och även över klasskampen, liksom skönheten står över allting. Men när den ensamme icke når dit han vill, då går individualisten till socialisterna och inordnar sig i kampen för den demokratiska idén." (Sid. 231)