Individualistic Society Quotes

#1. In our fiercely individualistic society, we are increasingly alone and increasingly lonely.

Chris Greer

#2. I certainly and deliberately introduced a great deal of variety into the people in the clamshell, which I suppose grows out of growing up in an individualistic society we profess to have.

Bill Reid

#3. War has traditionally been a man's work, although we know that often women were the cause of violence.

Betty Williams

#4. A man who is really earnest must begin with himself, he must be passively aware of all his thoughts, feelings and actions.

Jiddu Krishnamurti

#5. Putting this all together, it makes sense that WEIRD philosophers since Kant and Mill have mostly generated moral systems that are individualistic, rule-based, and universalist. That's the morality you need to govern a society of autonomous individuals.

Jonathan Haidt

#6. England is safe, if true within itself.

William Shakespeare

#7. Over 55,000 people saw the Beatles at Shea Stadium. We took $304,000 - the greatest gross ever in the history of show business!

Sid Bernstein

#8. I was a keen observer and listener. I picked up on clues. I figured things out logically, and I enjoyed puzzles. I loved the clear, focused feeling that came when I concentrated on solving a problem and everything else faded out.

Sonia Sotomayor

#9. So, in a Civil Service where smooth and sociable performance was more useful than an individualistic competence, Enderby went up the scale quickly, and was at the Commissioner level when Baley himself was nothing more than a C-5.

Isaac Asimov

#10. Think not that a long period intervenes between the instant of death and the eternity of glory. When the eyes close on earth they open in heaven.

Charles Haddon Spurgeon

#11. In an individualistic culture, the narcissist is God's gift to the world. In a collectivist society, the narcissist is God's gift to the collective.

Christopher Lasch

#12. The theory of thought is like painting: it needs that revolution which took art from representation to abstraction. This is the aim of a theory of thought without image.

Gilles Deleuze

#13. There are brown eyes in the world, after all, as well as blue, and one pair of brown that meant heaven to me as the blue had never done

E. Nesbit

#14. Friendship is made up of esteem and pleasure; pity is composed of sorrow and contempt: the mind may for some time fluctuate between them, but it can never entertain both at once.

Oliver Goldsmith

#15. He felt the urge to go into the desert, to see if it's silence held the answers to his questions.

Paulo Coelho

#16. Truth and reality in art begin at the point where the artist ceases to understand what he is doing and capable of doing - yet feels in himself a force that becomes steadily stronger ... and more concentrated.

Henri Matisse

#17. Our greatest songs are still unsung.

Hubert H. Humphrey