Individualism Quotes

"The entire universe is through and for me; the rest is hypothesis. " "I'm a rebel with a cause" "Just as modern mass production requires the standardization of commodities, so the social process requires standardization of man, and this standardization is called equality" "In the state of nature, profit is the measure of right" "The thing is to understand myself: the thing is to find a truth which is true for me, to find the idea for which I can live and die" "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"