#individualism

We can pay the ecological debt by changing economic models, and by giving up luxury consumption, setting aside selfishness and individualism, and thinking about the people and the planet Earth. ↗

— Evo Morales

#aside #changing #consumption #debt #earth

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

Man is an end in himself. ↗

— Ayn Rand

#life #objectivism #philosophy #success #life

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

Who would you be but who you are? ↗

— Terry Brooks

#fantasy #individualism #fantasy

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

It's not just that people sacrifice their love relationships, and the care of their children, to pursue their careers. Something like this has perhaps always existed. The point is that today many people feel called to do this, feel they ought to do this, feel their lives would be somehow wasted or unfulfilled if they didn't do it. ↗

— Charles Taylor

#love

Everything he admired or loved had been the product of intense individualism. ...when had mass philosophies ever brought benefit or wisdom? ↗

— John le Carré

#philosophy #wisdom #love