Quotes and Sayings About Individualism
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The fight we are in here, make no mistake about it, is a fight of individualism versus collectivism.
-- Ayn Rand -
Certainly, in Italy, nobody takes light for granted.
-- Barbara Steele -
If the 19th [century] was the century of the individual (liberalism means individualism), you may consider that this is the "collective" century, and therefore the century of the state.
-- Benito Mussolini -
Against individualism, the Fascist conception is for the State ... Liberalism denied the State in the interests of the particular individual; Fascism reaffirms the State as the true reality of the individual.
-- Benito Mussolini -
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When there is no room for individualism in ballparks, then there will be no room for individualism in life.
-- Bill Veeck -
Punk has always been about doing things your own way. What it represents for me is ultimate freedom and a sense of individuality.
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I have had the problem of seeing my male model go to Italy and... stay there.
-- Camille Claudel -
No matter where I've been overseas, the food stinks, except in Italy.
-- Carmen Electra -
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To this day the Arab influence is evident in southern Italy, northern Africa and, above all, in Spain.
-- Carroll Quigley -
In Italy, the Milanese are well organized but follow bourgeois taste. They adhere to certain codes of elegance, but not to individualism.
-- Christian Lacroix -
Italy is a divided country without a center.
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The chief safeguard of personal freedom in a democratic society is the anarchy and disorder of capitalist individualism.
-- Christopher Dawson -
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The older I get, the more individuality I find in animals and the less I find in humans.
-- Chuck JonesSource : "Personal Quotes/ Biography". www.imdb.com.
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a society driven mainly by selfish individualism has all the potential for sustainability of a collection of angry scorpions in a bottle.
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Individualism and mobility are at the core of American identity
-- Deborah TallSource : Deborah Tall (1993). “From where We Stand: Recovering a Sense of Place”
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You're on your own. And you know what you know. And YOU are the one who'll decide where to go...
-- Dr. Seuss -
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The strongest reason why we ask for woman a voice in the government under which she lives; in the religion she is asked to believe; equality in social life, where she is the chief factor; a place in the trades and professions, where she may earn her bread, is because of her birthright to self-sovereignty; because, as an individual, she must rely on herself.
-- Elizabeth Cady StantonSource : Speech before Senate Judiciary Committee, 18 Jan. 1892
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Jean's whole job is to protect Victoria. Jean is a very practical, very orderly, very disciplined person; she is the personality called the gatekeeper.
-- Erika Slezak -
If our dreams were more regular, more connected, more stable, they would also have more practical importance for us.
-- Ernst MachSource : Ernst Mach (1914). “The Analysis of Sensations, and the Relation of the Physical to the Psychical”
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The 19th century was the age of Individualism the 20th and 21st are the ages of Socialism.
-- Francis Parker Yockey -
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The intellectually sophisticated person is indifferent to all genuine individuality, because relationships and reactions result from it which cannot be exhausted with logical operations.
-- Georg SimmelSource : Georg Simmel, Kurt H. Wolff (1950). “The Sociology of Georg Simmel”, p.411, Simon and Schuster
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When I compare myself, my being-myself, with anything else whatever, all things alike, all in the same degree, rebuff me with blank unlikeness.
-- Gerard Manley Hopkins -
When we've finished the current tour I'm going to go back to Italy and see if I can do some more writing.
-- Gerry Mulligan -
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Standardization of our educational systems [which includes testing]is apt to stamp out individualism and defeat the very ends of education by leveling the product down rather than up.
-- Harvey Cushing -
Technologies tend to undermine community and encourage individualism.
-- Henry Mintzberg -
In Jefferson's mind democracy was tantamount to extreme individualism.
-- Herbert CrolySource : Herbert Croly (2005). “The Promise of American Life”, p.43, Cosimo, Inc.
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We're going to take things away from you on behalf of the common good.
-- Hillary Clinton -
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All I know is, if you listen to society, you'll never get anywhere!
-- Jerry Garcia -
The day of combination is here to stay. Individualism has gone, never to return.
-- John D. Rockefeller