Individualism Quotes - Page 7

• The Court is perhaps one of the last citadels of jealously preserved individualism. For the most part, we function as nine, small independent law firms.

  Colin Powell

  Independent, Law, Nine

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• There is a thing about beauty. Beauty is always associated with the male fantasy of what the female body is. I don’t think there is anything wrong with beauty. It’s just what women think is beautiful can be different. And there can be a beauty in individualism. If there is a wart or a scar, this can be beautiful, in a sense, when you paint it.

  Jenny Saville

  Inspirational, Beauty, Beautiful

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• As long as man remains an inquiring animal, there can never be a complete unanimity in our fundamental beliefs. The more diverse our paths, the greater is likely to be the divergence of beliefs.

  Arthur Keith

  Faith, Respect, Learning

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• When he has seen, that it is not his, nor any man's, but it is the soul which made the world, and that it is all accessible to him, he will know that he, as its minister, may rightfully hold all things subordinate and answerable to it.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Men, Soul, World

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson (Illustrated)”, p.1133, Delphi Classics

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• It is not what talents or genius a man has, but how he is to his talents, that constitutes friendship and character. The man thatstands by himself, the universe stands by him also.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Character, Men, Genius

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1872). “Representative men. English traits. Conduct of life”, p.417

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• The church is challenging such negative cultural elements as superstition, rugged individualism, materialism, hedonism, permissiveness and utilitarianism.

  Francis Arinze

  Challenges, Church, Negative

  "Arinze Sees Fundamentalism Posing Bar to Interfaith Relations". www.beliefnet.com. December 2001.

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• If what is best in mankind, and what its progress depends on, manifests itself primarily in the individual and only secondarily in the mass, then our objectives should be to maintain such freedom as allows the individual to think and speak for himself.

  Louis J. Halle

  Freedom, Thinking, Progress

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• I have no faith in our hypocritical, false, hysterical, uneducated and lazy intelligentsia when they suffer and complain: their oppression comes from within. I believe in individual people. I see salvation in discrete individuals, intellectuals and peasants, strewn hither and yon throughout Russia. They have the strength, although there are few of them.

  Anton Chekhov

  Integrity, Believe, Russia

  Letter to I.I. Orlov, February 22, 1899.

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• In America, the stories we tell ourselves and we tell each other in fiction have to do with individualism. Every person here is the center of his or her own story. And our job as people and as characters is to find our own motivations and desires, to overcome conflicts and obstacles toward defining ourselves so that we grow and change.

  Adam Johnson

  Jobs, Motivation, Character

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• There are also two Christianities in the world today. There is (1) the Christianity of the New Testament, and there is (2) the Christianity of accommodation to modernism, egalitarianism, niceness, naturalism, pop psychology, secular humanism, relativism, subjectivism, individualism, "Enlightenment" rationalism or postmodern irrationalism. New converts to the first Christianity are constantly amazed and scandalized by finding many of their clergy to be in love with the second and in fear of the first.

  Peter Kreeft

  Egalitarianism, Two, Psychology

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• Satire exists for the purpose of killing the social being [for the sake of] the true individual, the real human being.

  D. H. Lawrence

  Real, Society, Purpose

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• Abundance is rooted in community, not individualism. Abundance is what is before our eyes, but we cannot see when we are blinded by greed.

  Terry Tempest Williams

  Eye, Community, Greed

  "Exclusive: Terry Tempest Williams On Sacred Rage, Abundance, and the Upcoming White House Tar Sands Pipeline Action". Interview with Jerry Cope, www.huffingtonpost.com. August 17, 2011.

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• Part of this individualism is you feel this pressure that you alone have to conquer the world, and if you don't work all the hours God gives then you start feeling really guilty. If you can stop feeling guilty, then I think it's easier to start doing what you want to do.

  Tom Hodgkinson

  Thinking, Conquer The World, Giving

  "How To Be Idle: An Interview with Tom Hodgkinson". Interview with Katie Renz, www.motherjones.com. June 8, 2005.

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• When I was a kid, I used to live in New York City. There was a guy named Michael Alig. He used to throw parties. And a couple of times, I even worked for him and his crew, and handed out fliers, and had my super-high shoes on, and wearing silver Saran Wrap around my head or something. It's a world I was really comfortable in: a world full of individuals. I think what I like about that world - besides my own personal interests - is the individualism, the investment in the self.

  Jared Leto

  New York, Couple, Party

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• The progress of the human race is effected by the operation of two forces which correspond in most respects to what in physics are often called, for want of better terms, the centripetal and centrifugal forces. These are the forces of convergence and divergence, the one tending to concentration of powers and properties, and the other to their separateness or the independence of parts. Socialism and Individualism are to appearance conflicting, though in reality complemental, in their relations to the societary movement.

  Joshua K. Ingalls

  Reality, Two, Race

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• A man is a beggar who only lives to the useful, and, however he may serve as a pin or rivet in the social machine, cannot be saidto have arrived at self-possession.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Men, Self, Society

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1872). “Representative men. English traits. Conduct of life”, p.399

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• Methodological individualism is the doctrine that psychological states are individuated with respect to their causal powers.

  Jerry Fodor

  Respect, Doctrine, Psychological

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• The energetic action of the times develops individualism, and the religious appear isolated. I esteem this a step in the right direction. Heaven deals with us on no representative system. Souls are not saved in bundles.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Religious, Heaven, Soul

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1872). “Representative men. English traits. Conduct of life”, p.429

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• The social problem of the twentieth century is whether civilized nations can restore themselves to sanity after their nineteenth-century aberrations of individualism and capitalism.

  Albion Woodbury Small

  Civilized Nations, Aberration, Problem

  1914 'A Vision of Social Efficiency', in the American Journal of Sociology, Jan.

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• Instructing in cures, therapists always recommend that "each case be individualized." If this advice is followed, one becomes persuaded that those means recommended in textbooks as the best, means perfectly appropriate for the template case, turn out to be completely unsuitable in individual cases.

  Anton Chekhov

  Mean, Medicine, Advice

  "A Dreary Story". Short story by Anton Chekhov, 1889.

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• I should like [people] to like the purely individual thing in themselves, which makes them act in singleness. and They only like to do the collective thing.

  D. H. Lawrence

  People, Society, Should

  D. H. Lawrence (2016). “D. H. Lawrence: The Complete Novels (Book House)”, p.947, Book House

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• Large corporations welcome innovation and individualism in the same way the dinosaurs welcomed large meteors.

  Scott Adams

  Innovation, Meteors, Way

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• I don't think my father had a direct influence on me, but I do think, more or less, I was influenced by his independent individualism. And the kind of condition he had when he was in this society - the kind of mistreatment society gave him.

  Ai Weiwei

  Father, Independent, Thinking

  Interview with Claudine Ko, www.mcsweeneys.net. March 7, 2013.

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• I really like individualism based on truth.

  Tyler Blackburn

  "Interview with Tyler Blackburn from Pretty Little Liars". Interview with Maranda Pleasant, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

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• The kind of group mentality that we had lived under since the Second World War is starting to erupt, and the craving for individualism is now much stronger. It's not as taboo anymore, as it was when I was younger.

  Nicolas Winding Refn

  War, Stronger, Groups

  Source: www.avclub.com

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