Individualism Quotes

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

All I know is, if you listen to society, you'll never get anywhere!

Comrades! We must abolish the cult of the individual decisively, once and for all

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

You may have the universe if I may have Italy.

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

Before Sunrise did very well internationally. It made as much in Italy and Korea as it did here.

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

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.

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.

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.

Certainly, in Italy, nobody takes light for granted.

In bourgeois society capital is independent and has individuality, while the living person is dependent and has no individuality.

American individualism, much celebrated and cherished, has developed without its essential corrective, which is belonging.

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

I knew I was alone in a way that no earthling has ever been before.

Standardization of our educational systems [which includes testing]is apt to stamp out individualism and defeat the very ends of education by leveling the product down rather than up.

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

The function of the society is to cultivate the individual. It is not the function of the individual to support society.

Art = a mad search for individualism.

Communism is a monopolistic system, economically and politically. The system suppresses individual initiative, and the 21st century is all about individualism and freedom. The development of technology supported these directions.

In Italy, the Milanese are well organized but follow bourgeois taste. They adhere to certain codes of elegance, but not to individualism.

Italy is a geographical expression.

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.

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.

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.

Our emotional symptoms are precious sources of life and individuality.

It's weird not to be weird.

Good and just society is neither the thesis of capitalism nor the antithesis of communism, but a socially conscious democracy which reconciles the truths of individualism and collectivism.

I think I feel automatically at home in Italy

The day of combination is here to stay. Individualism has gone, never to return.

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

The fight we are in here, make no mistake about it, is a fight of individualism versus collectivism.

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

The chief safeguard of personal freedom in a democratic society is the anarchy and disorder of capitalist individualism.

Ayn Rand more than anyone else did a fantastic job of explaining the morality of capitalism, the morality of individualism.

Against individualism, the Fascist conception is for the State... Liberalism denied the State in the interests of the particular individual; Fascism reaffirms the State as the true reality of the individual.

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

And also, Sergio Leone was considered in Italy a director of category B, not a big director.

But society has now fairly got the better of individuality; and the danger which threatens human nature is not the excess, but the deficiency, of personal Impulses and preferences.

The distinctive principle of Western social philosophy is individualism.

Like all pure creatures, cats are practical.

No matter where I've been overseas, the food stinks, except in Italy.

The thing is, I'm a very practical filmmaker.

If the 19th [century] was the century of the individual (liberalism means individualism), you may consider that this is the "collective" century, and therefore the century of the state.

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

My talk show takes place in bed, in Italy.

I'm a traveling practical joker. That's my line of work.

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