Individualism Quotes

"In some ways, it is easier to be a dissident, for then one is without responsibility" "Every man has a right to utter what he thinks truth, and every other man has a right to knock him down for it" "An individual has not started living until he can rise above the narrow confines of his individualistic concerns to the broader concerns of all humanity." "The more powerful and original a mind, the more it will incline towards the religion of solitude" "Everybody else is working to change, persuade, tempt and control them. The best readers come to fiction to be free of all that noise." "Society attacks early when the individual is helpless" "I am not a product of my circumstances. I am a product of my decisions." "Resist much, obey little" "Risk everything. Care no more for the opinions of others, for those voices. Do the hardest thing on earth for you. Act for yourself. Face the truth" "The crowd is untruth" "Conventionality is not morality. Self-righteousness is not religion. To attack the first is not to assail the last." "I think people should be allowed to do anything they want. We haven't tried that for a while. Maybe this time it'll work." "Real education must ultimately be limited to men who insist on knowing, the rest is mere sheep-herding" "I can live alone, if self-respect, and circumstances require me so to do" "Always vote for principle though you may vote alone" "It never got weird enough for me" "I'm completely in favor of the separation of Church and State. My idea is that these two institutions screw us up enough on their own, so both of them together is certain death" "Art is the most intense mode of individualism that the world has known." "Today, we turn to one person to provide what an entire village once did: a sense of grounding, meaning, and continuity." "It is not society that is to guide and save the creative hero, but precisely the reverse"