Quotes About Individualism Vs Collectivism

#1. Sometimes people need to be told to sit down and shut up.

Chris Christie

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

Jakub Bozydar Wisniewski

#3. And why does this same God tell me how to raise my children when he had to drown his?

Robert G. Ingersoll

#4. Of all the unexpected things in contemporary literature, this is among the oddest: that kids have an inordinate appetite for very long, very tricky, very strange books about places that don't exist.

Adam Gopnik

#5. The point is, this is a way to help inoculate me about what has come and is coming.

George W. Bush

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

Jakub Bozydar Wisniewski

#7. 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.

#8. 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

#9. And while a pretty face is nice to wake up to, and adoring face is so much more rewarding.

Melissa De La Cruz

#10. Collective will supplants individual whim

Samuel P. Huntington

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

Jakub Bozydar Wisniewski

#12. 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

#13. When I was still in high school I knew I wanted to live in California.

Tila Tequila

#14. Live is meaningful only if you gave it a meaning.

T. Harv Eker

#15. 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

#16. 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

#17. 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

#18. I'll always be a party monster. I'll always love getting dressed up.

James St. James

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

Jakub Bozydar Wisniewski

#20. 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

#21. 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

#22. What society doesn't realize is that in the past, ordinary people respected learning. They respected books, and they don't now, or not very much. That whole respect for serious literature and learning has disappeared.

Doris Lessing

#23. Say German cars are sort of very built and efficient. Italian cars are a bit flamboyant and quick. Mexican cars just going to be lazy, feckless, flatulent ...

Richard Hammond

#24. 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

#25. The feeling of arms around me, of love in my heart, it was more powerful than any of the negativity I knew was existing in the world for me. That feeling of love killed it all.

James Frey

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

A.E. Samaan

#27. (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

#28. 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.

#29. [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

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

Stefan Molyneux

#31. 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

#32. 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

#33. I created the Women's Federation for World Peace in order to restore all that woman originally lost. You American women don't need a man in the position of grandfather, parents, husband, elder or younger brother. You only need the true Adam.

Sun Myung Moon

#34. I have had quite a few obsessive fans. They write to me and then they turn up at signings and look really sheepish. If I said 'boo' to them, they would run away. I think they maybe believe I could take over their lives and sort them out. If they saw the state of my kitchen they wouldn't think that.

Denise Mina

#35. In wanting, a man knows himself better than in having, since, in the absence of temporal things, man is better prepared for the reception of eternal things.

John Tauler