Quotes About Collectivism And Individualism

#1. Collective will supplants individual whim

Samuel P. Huntington

#2. The essence of diversity is the individual's experience of it. Diversity is about personalised shades of experience emanating from universal colours of humanity, but each person takes from the universal what is relevant to them and alters it by their own interpersonal experience.

Camila Batmanghelidjh

#3. For Americans, the car is the American way. Jay Gatsby roars through capitalism, individual freedom, and the good life. For China, the train is the metaphor. Everyone's on board, there's no chance to steer, and it's clickety-clack to collectivism's dreams.

Mei Fong

#4. Collectivists see the world the way Mr. Magoo did - as one big blur. They homogenize people in a communal blender, sacrificing the discrete features that make us who we are.

Lawrence W. Reed

#5. I had a dog named Oliver with severe separation anxiety. He couldn't be alone ... so I had to bring him wherever I went.

Matthew Pearl

#6. How can you believe someone to be so beautiful and amazing and just about the most magical person you've ever known, when it turns out she was in such pain that she had to drink poison to rob her cells of oxygen until her heart had no choice but to stop beating?

Gale Forman

#7. Individualism is the self-affirmation of the individual self as individual self without regard to its participation in its world. As such it is the opposite of collectivism, the self affirmation of the self as part of a larger whole without regard to its character as an individual self.

Paul Tillich

#8. I do not believe that the values which the Western democracies consider essential to civilization can survive in a world rent by the international anarchy of nationalism and the economic anarchy of competitive enterprise.

Arthur Henderson

#9. Totalitarianism begins with using the word "we" without every I's permission.

Jakub Bozydar Wisniewski

#10. The reason I got involved in public service, by and large, if I had to credit one thinker, one person, it would be Ayn Rand. The fight we are in here, make no mistake about it, is a fight of individualism versus collectivism.

Paul Ryan

#11. I believe that the duel between Christianity and atheism is the most important in the world. I further believe that the struggle between individualism and collectivism is the same struggle reproduced on another level.

William F. Buckley Jr.

#12. A robust economy is a source of national strength for Japan.

Shinzo Abe

#13. The only common good is the common liberty to pursue individual goods.

Jakub Bozydar Wisniewski

#14. Individualism turns a band into a society. Collectivism turns society into a mob.

Jakub Bozydar Wisniewski

#15. Some decisions cannot be made in advance of the time that will demand them. We cannot always anticipate the way in which things will happen and therefore cannot anticipate what we will do. We must accept that.

Terry Brooks

#16. The one charm about the past is that it is the past.

Oscar Wilde

#17. Collectivism, as an intellectual power and a moral ideal, is dead. But freedom and individualism, and their political expression, capitalism, have not yet been discovered.

Ayn Rand

#18. Living someone else's dream is truly a nightmare. None should forfeit their life's aspirations to toil for the goals of another. Unity of purpose is a sentence. Collectivism is a crime; theft of individual worth.

A.E. Samaan

#19. Socialism, or communism as it is sometimes called, is merely a secular religion, where the State becomes a god.

Stefan Molyneux

#20. [The public school system is] usually a twelve year sentence of mind control.
Crushing creativity, smashing individualism, encouraging collectivism and
compromise, destroying the exercise of intellectual inquiry, twisting it
instead into meek subservience to authority.

Walter Karp

#21. Individual liberty may be unable to solve every social problem, but collective violence is unable to solve any social problem.

Jakub Bozydar Wisniewski

#22. (Liberalism is like this: Purporting to offer a middle ground between radical individualism and collectivism, what it really gives us is a diabolical synthesis of the two, a bureaucratically managed libertinism.

Edward Feser

#23. I love you," he said, and as Logan looked at him, he reached for his hands. "I had no idea when you first sat down across from me that night - no idea what I'd been missing," Tate whispered. "It was you.

Ella Frank

#24. Sadly enough, individual liberty remains the ideal of revolutionary thinkers even in the 21st Century.

A.E. Samaan

#25. Libertarianism is rejected by the modern left - which preaches individualism but practices collectivism. Capitalism is rejected by the modern right-which preaches enterprise but practices protectionism.

Karl Hess

#26. From experience, I came to learn that ayahuasca bestows upon the user knowledge about a variety of topics, not only consciousness and perception, but also leads one to realize that what we perceive is an illusion.

Pablo Amaringo

#27. Just as communism always begins with an appeal to "humanity" and equality" and ends with inhuman despotism, so does fascism always begin with an appeal to "nationalism" and "individualism," and ends with a military collectivism far worse than the disease it purports to cure.

Sydney J. Harris

#28. I don't envisage collectivism. There is no such animal, it is always individualism, sometimes the rest vote and sometimes they do not, and if they do they do and if they do not they do not.

Gertrude Stein

#29. The good and just society is neither the thesis of capitalism nor the antithesis of communism, but a socially conscious democracy which reconciles the truths of individualism and collectivism

Martin Luther King Jr.