Individualism Quotes

There cannot be two standards for terror, one for Christian terrorists that ignores or minimizes "race" and religion; and another for Muslim terrorists that makes blanket assumptions regarding "race" and religion. We can do better, and we have to if the Bill of Rights is to retain any sense of meaning at all. - Commentary in The Abolitionist Examiner: What`s It Gonna Be? Collectivist Racialism or Individualism?

There`s been a boiling down of real emotion into a set pattern instead of individualism.

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.

Those nations of artists, finding their own individualism, and kind of standing against the world: to me that`s the ultimate nightmare. I want to get lost and diffused in the world.

I`m very practical. What I`m reaching for is individualism for women.

I pattern my actions and life after what I want. No two people are alike. You might admire attributes in others, but use these only as a guide in improving yourself in your own unique way. I don`t go for carbon copies. Individualism is sacred!

When I went to school - Pasadena Playhouse - we were taught that the obligation of the actor is twofold; to entertain - and to educate. We don`t educate. So I`ve taken that onto myself. Now, am I a good educator? I don`t know. If someone latches onto a concept of mine, then I`ve taught well; otherwise, I`ll have to rethink my stand on things. But, in a country where individualism is supreme and synonymous with being an American, it`s all vanished - it`s all gone now. You go to college, and you know what you learn in college? How to work for somebody else. I teach an acting class for teenagers in the summer - I have for the past fourteen years. I don`t encourage them to go to college: you want to be an actor? Be an actor. If you have to starve to do it, starve to do it. But if you`re not passionate about what you want to do, you won`t be good at it.

In Italy, the Milanese are well organized but follow bourgeois taste. They adhere to certain codes of elegance, but not to individualism.

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

Art is the most intense mode of individualism that the world has known.

Art is the most intense mode of individualism that the world has known.

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

"Style" is an expression of individualism mixed with charisma. Fashion is something that comes after style.