Jerry Garcia
Musician
"All I know is, if you listen to society, you'll never get anywhere!"
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Individualism
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Murray Gell-Mann
Physicist
"So the old Copenhagen interpretation needs to be generalized, needs to be replaced by something that can be used for the whole universe, and can be used also in cases where there is plenty of individuality and history"
Calvin Coolidge
Politician
"Liberty is not collective, it is personal. All liberty is individual liberty."
Karl Marx
Philosopher, Economist
"In bourgeois society capital is independent and has individuality, while the living person is dependent and has no individuality."
Theodore Roosevelt
Politician, Author
"The most practical kind of politics is the politics of decency."
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"The function of the society is to cultivate the individual. It is not the function of the individual to support society."
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"Communism is a monopolistic system, economically and politically. The system suppresses individual initiative, and the 21st century is all about individualism and freedom. The development of technology supported these directions."
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"It's weird not to be weird."
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"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."
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"The aged love what is practical while impetuous youth longs only for what is dazzling."
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"The fight we are in here, make no mistake about it, is a fight of individualism versus collectivism."
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"Ayn Rand more than anyone else did a fantastic job of explaining the morality of capitalism, the morality of individualism."
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"Like all pure creatures, cats are practical."
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"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."
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"The best thing you've got going for you is individuality."
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"We are the universe pretending to be individuals."
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"In spite of his practical ability, some of his experience had petrified into maxims and quotations."
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"In 1917 - as we have seen, - Italy suffered a great reverse, losing 200,000 soldiers and immense supplies."
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"Individualism is what makes cooperation worth living."
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"We are in a period of such individualism that one no longer speaks of disciples; one speaks of thieves."
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"If a life can have a 'theme-song' - and I believe every worthwhile one has - mine is [best] expressed in one word: Individualism."
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"Much of the discussion about socialism and individualism is entirely pointless, because of failure to agree on terminology."
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"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."
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"A man's rights are not violated by a private individual's refusal to deal with him."
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"It is more difficult to designate this form of conation on its practical side by a satisfactory name."
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