#dualism

Civil government, so far as it is instituted for the security of property, is in reality instituted for the defense of the rich against the poor, or of those who have some property against those who have none at all. ↗

— Adam Smith

#democracy #freedom #history #hope #individualism

I like it when a flower or a little tuft of grass grows through a crack in the concrete. It's so fuckin' heroic. ↗

— George Carlin

#hero #heroism #individualism #individuality #nature

For too long in this society, we have celebrated unrestrained individualism over common community. ↗

— Joe Biden

#common #community #individualism #long #over

What's natural and right is to go with the energy of how it all has to work together. What's natural and right is interconnectedness, not individualism. What is natural and right is respect for the system, not killing the system. What's natural and right is love. ↗

— Susan Powter

#go #how #individualism #interconnectedness #killing

Individualism is rather like innocence; there must be something unconscious about it. ↗

— Louis Kronenberger

#individualism #innocence #like #must #rather

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

#ayn #ayn rand #collectivism #credit #fight

And even when they refuse to listen, I'll keep talking anyway, hoping on a slim chance that the things inside my head are worth something to someone. ↗

— Nadège Richards

#lessons #life #life-lessons #love #speaking-out

For everyone now strives most of all to seperate his person, wishing to experience the fullness of life within himself, and yet what comes of all his efforts is not the fullness of life, but full suicide, for instead of the fullness of self-definition, they fall into complete isolation. ↗

— Fyodor Dostoyevsky

#philosophy #self #experience

The only way we'll get freedom for ourselves is to identify ourselves with every oppressed people in the world. We are blood brothers to the people of Brazil, Venezuela, Haiti, Cuba -- yes Cuba too. ↗

— Malcolm X

#democracy #freedom #history #hope #individualism

Typography fostered the modern idea of individuality, but it destroyed the medieval sense of community and integration ↗

— Neil Postman

#individuality #typography #age