Best 384 quotes in «individualism quotes» category

My talk show takes place in bed, in Italy.

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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 artist makes things concrete and gives them individuality.

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

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

The distinctive principle of Western social philosophy is individualism.

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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.

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

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.

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.

All men are born great but die on the way. But a virtuous never dies but once.

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)

After Napoleon's 1815 defeat at Waterloo, Europeans had created nation-states in the image and likeness of Napoleon. The new states became the foci of popular affection, even worship. All organized themselves as Napoleon had France, and as Hegel had prescribed, with every house numbered so that bureaucratic government could pass its science to and collect sustenance from each. The states became the purveyors of education and sources of authority. They fostered the myth that people within their borders formed distinct races with different geniuses and destinies. All partook of Charles Darwin's ideology that life is an evolutionary struggle in which the fittest survive.

Ah, sir, that's just mean. She's not a Victoria's Secret model, but she's pretty in her way.

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.

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

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

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.

A hand gets way cleaner from washing, not itself, but the other hand.

A libertarian is somebody who believes, of course, in personal liberty. And liberty is a personal thing; it is not collective. You don’t gain liberty because you belong to a group. So we don’t talk about women’s rights or gay rights or anything else. Everybody has an absolute equal right as an individual, and it comes to them naturally.

All spiritual techniques seek to awaken fallen man from the dream in which he lives : he dreams continuously of individual state of being, and of the many forms through which the external world presents itself to him; he builds for himself a paradise of illusions, so as to forget the absence of God. To recover the vision of the spiritual world, the soul of man must "die" to this dream, this ceaseless flow of images which fallen man regards as normal, everyday state of his consciousness.

A million zeros joined together do not, unfortunately, add up to one. Ultimately everything depends on the quality of the individual, but our fatally shortsighted age thinks only in terms of large numbers and mass organizations, though one would think that the world had seen more than enough of what a well-disciplined mob can do in the hands of a single madman. Unfortunately, this realization does not seem to have penetrated very far - and our blindness is extremely dangerous.

A man who chooses between drinking a glass of milk and a glass of a solution of potassium cyanide does not choose between two beverages; he chooses between life and death. A society that chooses between capitalism and socialism does not choose between two social systems; it chooses between social cooperation and the disintegration of society. Socialism is not an alternative to capitalism; it is an alternative to any system under which men can live as human beings.