Individual Quotes - Page 18

More and more, when faced with the world of men, the only reaction is one of individualism. Man alone is an end unto himself. Everything one tries to do for the common good ends in failure.

The writer in western civilization has become not a voice of his tribe, but of his individuality. This is a very narrow-minded situation.

Most individuals work much harder to hang on to what they have than to take the necessary risk to shoot for their dreams.

An individual voice can be heard in a choir that otherwise sings in unison. This is something that is not excused.

In the development of mankind as a whole, just as in individuals, love alone acts as the civilizing factor in the sense that it brings a change from egoism to altruism.

You show up at the Olympics, and you're no longer you; you're an American Olympian. You're part of this greater whole, and the individual doesn't matter.

I was looking for myself and asking everyone except myself questions which I, and only I, could answer.

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.

Government will no longer be run on the whims of individuals.

I am opposed to any individual taxes until we eliminate all of the unconstitutional agencies, and I suspect we wouldn't need a tax after that.

Individuals don't build great companies, teams do.

No matter how individual we humans are, we are a composite of everything we are aware of. We are a mirror of our times.

Today the predatory state, or the predatory group of states, with power of total destruction, is no more to be tolerated than the predatory individual.

When you are 'bad' in the art world they are very very scared! They want to control you... and they can't! Individuality and uniqueness are threats to the status quo. It is an artist's job to be an 'outlaw.

The balance of private good and general welfare is at the bottom of civilized morals but the morals of the Heroic Age are founded on individuality, and on nothing else.

Italy is a geographical expression.

A free society is one in which individuals are free to discover for themselves the available range of alternatives.

I was not designed to be forced. I will breathe after my own fashion. Let us see who is the strongest.

But the general welfare must restrict and regulate the exertions of the individuals, as the individuals must derive a supply of their strength from social power.

Science cannot describe individuals, but only types. If human societies cannot be classified, they must remain inaccessible to scientific description.

I do not belong to any school, I simply want to do something that is personal to my self.

Fashion is general. Style is individual.

What you must dare: is to be yourself.

No community dictates to any individual how to live their lives. You can criticize and you can push but people freely choose.

It is the individual's task to differentiate himself from all the others and stand on his own feet. All collective identities . . . interfere with the fulfillment of this task. Such collective identities are crutches for the lame, shields for the timid, beds for the lazy, nurseries for the irresponsible. . . .