#individualist

Most artists like to think of themselves as rugged individualists, as independent characters. ↗

— Jack Levine

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A coldly rationalist individualist can deny that he has any obligation to make sacrifices for the future. ↗

— Garrett Hardin

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The American Indian was an individualist in religion as in war. He had neither a national army nor an organized church. ↗

— Charles Eastman

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An Individualist is a man who lives for his own sake and by his own mind; he neither sacrifices himself to others nor sacrifices others to himself; he deals with men as a trader - not as a looter; as a producer - not as a Attila. ↗

— Ayn Rand

#trader #men

When we are honest - that's my saying - if we are honest then we will reveal ourselves. But we do not have to make an effort to be individualistic, different from others. ↗

— Josef Albers

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Our country was thereby saved from the consequences of its distracting individualistic conception of democracy, and its merely legal conception of nationality. It was because the followers of Jackson and Douglas did fight for it, that the Union was preserved. ↗

— Herbert Croly

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Only in baseball can a team player be a pure individualist first and a team player second, within the rules and spirit of the game. ↗

— Branch Rickey

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In our personal ambitions we are individualists. But in our seeking for economic and political progress as a nation, we all go up or else all go down as one people. ↗

— Franklin D. Roosevelt

#economic #else #go #individualists #nation

Obama is trying to paint us as a caricature, as if we're some bizarre individualists who are hardcore libertarians. It's a false dichotomy and intellectually lazy. Of course we believe in government. We think government should do what it does really well, but that it has limits. ↗

— Paul Ryan

#bizarre #caricature #course #dichotomy #does

First of all, whoever didn't want to be a member of this association or the other association, was branded, you know, like a dangerous individualist, you know, infected by the Western decadence, you know. So everybody joined. ↗

— Milos Forman

#branded #dangerous #decadence #everybody #first