Society Individualism Quotes

#1. To be of value to humanity, start by thinking for yourself.

Suzy Kassem

#2. I long for the day when people embrace our common humanity and respect diversity.

Liza M. Wiemer

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

Jakub Bozydar Wisniewski

#4. Now, there's a desire for order, authority coming from a feeling that society has gone too far to the side of individualism and liberalism.

Marion Marechal-Le Pen

#5. In a society in which individualism is becoming rampant, people more and more believe that they are the center of the world. Such a belief system makes individual failure almost inconsolable.

Martin Seligman

#6. Unorthodoxy threatens more than the life of a mere individual; it strikes at Society itself.

Aldous Huxley

#7. He had understood long ago that the past was no better than the present. That was as plain as day. One had to try to escape, to wrestle free from every era, so as not to be devoured by it.

Lyudmila Ulitskaya

#8. Source of national strength. By providing leadership, guidance, restraint, security, and values, the family unit promotes the greatness of the nation. Should the family fail in these responsibilities, the nation will suffer as a result.

John Eidsmoe

#9. The chief safeguard of personal freedom in a democratic society is the anarchy and disorder of capitalist individualism.

Christopher Dawson

#10. Our individualism has always been bound by a set of communal values, the glue upon which every healthy society depends.

Barack Obama

#11. Coolness is not an image that can be bought or worn. True cool is an attitude that is projected from a person who is extremely comfortable in their own skin.

Suzy Kassem

#12. A Libertarian society of unfettered individualism spreads its benefits to virtually everyone - not just those who have the resources to seize political power.

Harry Browne

#13. The individual benefits as an individual from his ability to deny the truth even though society as a whole, of which he is a part, suffers.

Garrett Hardin

#14. The demands of unbounded individualism need to be weighed in the light of inherent social constraints which can only change their form but cannot be eliminated without eliminating civilization.

Thomas Sowell

#15. Society has parted man from man, neglectful of the universal heart.

William Wordsworth

#16. It is only you, treading in the blessed path of peace and freedom, who can bring about the true regeneration of society, and with it the true happiness of your own lives.

Auberon Herbert

#17. Disconnect from society's pressure to conform. Do things your own way.

Fennel Hudson

#18. When we begin to think like everybody else thinks, that is dangerous. Individualism is part of our divine endowment. God made us as individuals and we are responsible before Him.

Dr. J. Otis Yoder

#19. A free society cherishes nonconformity. It knows that from the non-conformist, from the eccentric, have come many of the great ideas of freedom. A free society fertilizes the soil in which non-conformity and dissent and individualism can grow.

Henry Steele Commager

#20. Unlike a drop of water which loses its identity when it joins the ocean,
man does not lose his being in the society in which he lives.
Man's life is independent.
He is born not for the development of the society alone, but for the development of his self too.

B.R. Ambedkar

#21. The State in particular is turned into a quasi-animate personality from whom everything is expected. In reality it is only a camouflage for those individuals who know how to manipulate it.

C. G. Jung

#22. I think the idea of individualism has become more dominating in our society. You can even see it by our political system: how people vote, the job situation, the sociological evolution that's happening, what's happening in the Middle East and so forth.

Nicolas Winding Refn

#23. I find it hilarious when I see 'not alive' fearing death

Mayank Sharma

#24. Phrases like 'the team spirit' are always employed to cut across individualism, love and personal loyalties.

Muriel Spark

#25. If only a world-wide consciousness could arise that all division and fission are due to the splitting of opposites in the psyche, then we should know where to begin.

C. G. Jung

#26. 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.

#27. But society has now fairly got the better of individuality; and the danger which threatens human nature is not the excess, but the deficiency, of personal Impulses and preferences.

John Stuart Mill

#28. Amid the seeming confusion of our mysterious world , individuals are so nicely adjusted to a system, and systems to one another and to a whole, that, by stepping aside for a moment, a man exposes himself to a fearful risk of losing his place forever. (Wakefield)

Nathaniel Hawthorne

#29. Freedom in capitalist society always remains about the same as it was in ancient Greek republics: Freedom for slave owners.

Vladimir Ilyich Lenin

#30. A society driven mainly by selfish individualism has all the potential for sustainability of a collection of angry scorpions in a bottle.

David Ehrenfeld

#31. When we respect our humanity, we can embrace our diversity.

Liza M. Wiemer

#32. This was replaced by a widespread and aggressive individualism whereby everyone looks out for himself, at the expense of others and without worrying about the good of society.

Zygmunt Bauman

#33. Our era is one in which individualism has been submerged by the herd-like mentality of a society where conformity, mediocrity and lowered expectations are the norm.

Brian J. D'Souza

#34. Religion is the best antidote to the individualism of the consumer age. The idea that society can do without it flies in the face of history and, now, evolutionary biology.

Jonathan Sacks

#35. Loyalty, respect for authority and some degree of sanctification create a more binding social order that places some limits on individualism and egoism.

Jonathan Haidt

#36. God is a complex of ideas formed by the tribe, the nation, and humanity, which awake and organize social feelings and aim to link the individual to society and to bridle the zoological individualism.

Maxim Gorky

#37. When there is no other aim but to outstrip constantly the point arrived at, how painful to be thrown back!...Since imagination is hungry for novelty, and ungoverned, it gropes at random

Emile Durkheim

#38. 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

#39. If a blending of individualism and of cooperative participation is a prerequisite to a democratic solution of the problems of a society of free men, it must also be noted that an atmosphere of freedom is required if these problems are to be met constructively and as they arise.

Marshall Field

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

Jakub Bozydar Wisniewski

#41. The function of the society is to cultivate the individual. It is not the function of the individual to support society.

Joseph Campbell

#42. Disconnecting from one's community is a personal choice, of course, but it ends up having social implications ["The Basement," The Awl, Feb 5, 2015].

Ariana Kelly

#43. All I know is, if you listen to society, you'll never get anywhere!

Jerry Garcia

#44. As the man was bundled into an armoured police van, he turned and shouted: 'Don't waste your life following others! Be individual! Live your dreams!'

I stood there thinking. He was right. Ours is a society of followers, trapped by an island mentality.

Tahir Shah