20 Quotes On Individualism

1. To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment.-Ralph Waldo Emerson

2. Individualism is what makes cooperation worth living.-Henry Ford

3. The strongest man in the world is he who stands most alone.-Henrik Ibsen

4. Individualism, the love of enterprise, and the pride in personal freedom, have been deemed by Americans not only as their choicest, but their peculiar and exclusive possessions.-James Bryce

5. Unrestricted individualism is the law of the beast of the jungle.-Mahatma Gandhi

6. If a man is not faithful to his own individuality, he cannot be loyal to anything.-Claude Mckay

7. Individualism is a denial that life has any meaning except the gratification of the ego; in politics it must end in anarchy. It is not possible for one man to be both Christian and Individualist.-Russell Kirk

8. Individualism is an emphasized weakness.-Samuel Smiles

9. The first duty of a man is to think for himself.-Jose Marti

10. Individualism has really the higher aim. Modern morality consists in accepting the standard of one’s age.-Oscar Wilde

11. Our individualism has always been bound by a set of communal values, the glue upon which every healthy society depends.-Barack Obama

12. Individualism is bad for business – though absolutely necessary for freedom, progressive knowledge, and any possible interface with the transcendent.-Tom Robbins

13. In the future individualism ought to be the efficient utilization of the whole individual for the absolute benefit of a collectivity.-Che Guevara

14. Art is individualism, and individualism is a disturbing and disintegrating force.-Oscar Wilde

15. Individualism is rather like innocence: There must be something unconscious about it.-Louis Kronenberger

16. Individuality doesn’t just mean individualism-standing alone. It means developing one’s unique gifts, and being able to share them for the enjoyment of oneself and others.-Frances Moore Lapp

17. Individualism and mobility are at the core of American identity.-Deborah Tall

18. He alone is great and happy who requires neither to command nor to obey in order to secure his being of some importance in the world.-Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

19. Individualism is going around these days in uniform, handing out the party line on individualism.-Wendell Berry

20. Individualism regards man-every man-as an independent, sovereign entity who possesses an inalienable right to his own life, a right derived from his nature as a rational being.-Ayn Rand