Individualism Quotes

"The peculiar evil of silencing the expression of an opinion is that it is robbing the human race" "You cannot observe people through an ideology. Your ideology observes for you." "I reject your reality and substitute my own" "Secularism teaches us to be good for our own sake." "The whole theory of the universe is directed unerringly to one single individual" "I don't believe there is a powerful and mysterious 'popular will', a common will that expresses itself inexorably in spite of repression." "The more a man has in himself, the less he will want from other people, - the less, indeed, other people can be to him" "Liberty is the absence of all the impediments to action that are not contained in the nature and in the intrinsic quality of the agent." "They who can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety" "One should respect public opinion insofar as is necessary to avoid starvation and to keep out of prison, but anything beyond this is voluntary submission to an unnecessary tyranny" "If liberty means anything at all, it means the right to tell people what they do not want to hear." "To die hating them, that was freedom." "Sanity is not statistical." "It is extremely dangerous to encourage people to see themselves as exceptional whatever the motivation." "And all those who look down on me, I'm tearing down your balcony." "The culture of comfort, which makes us think only of ourselves, makes us insensitive to the cries of other people." "The instant formal government is abolished, society begins to act" "What is reprehensible is people who... tell you there are limits and that you can't do this or that. These are the people who when you say you can think freely, say it's only thinkable up to a certain point." "Trust thyself every heart vibrates to that iron string " "A man is morally free when, in an extant universe, he is capable of doing whatever he thinks is right, of thinking whatever he believes is true, and of feeling whatever he feels."