Rush Limbaugh Quotes

It is the individual's task to differentiate himself from all the others and stand on his own feet. All collective identities . . . interfere with the fulfillment of this task. Such collective identities are crutches for the lame, shields for the timid, beds for the lazy, nurseries for the irresponsible. . . .

And so the reliance on Property, including the reliance on governments which protect it, is the want of self-reliance.

The American culture ideal of the "self-made-man," of everyone "standing on his own feet" seemed as tragic a picture as the initiative-destroying dependence on a benevolent despot. He felt and perceived clearly that we all need continuous help from each other, and that this type of interdependence is the greatest challenge to maturity of individual and group functioning.

If you let other people do it for you, they will do it to you.

I'm a big fan of community, and I think independence is over-rated.

The idea of self-reliance is important to me, and that is echoed, in my way of thinking, by a conservative approach to politics.

I don't want to end up being dependent on anyone.

No god save self, that is the way to live.

There's no such thing as society.

You have people like Sarah Jessica Parker - and it's also because of her mother and where she came from and all that stuff - but how you're taught to be responsible for yourself rather than endlessly people waiting for you and bringing you things.

To do anything that suggested a taste for solitude, even to go for a walk by yourself, was always slightly dangerous. There was a word for it in Newspeak: ownlife.

Doing for people what they can and ought to do for themselves is a dangerous experiment.

Society everywhere is in conspiracy against the manhood of every one of its members. The virtue in most request is conformity. Self-reliance is its aversion. It loves not realities and creators, but names and customs.

It is easy to see that a greater self-reliance must work a revolution in all the offices and relations of men; in their religion; in their education; in their pursuits; their modes of living; their association; in their property; in their speculative views.

That's the only way we're going to get through these programs. That is true compassion. Having people become dependent on others is not compassion at all.

The great lesson that nature seems to teach us at all ages is self-dependence, self-protection, self-support. In the hours of our keenest sufferings all are thrown wholly on themselves for consolation.

You can't trust other people. If it's important, you have to do it yourself.

Freedon succeeds from the moment people stop looking to others to improve their lives and start taking responsibility.

Freedom is the slogan which speaks to the ears of people who feel strong enough to manage on their own using their own resources, who can do without dependency because they can do without others caring for them.

Only the self-sufficient stand alone - most people follow the crowd and imitate.

I'm someone who doesn't believe in making my problems other people's problems.

People like Obama think you are incapable of doing anything yourself.

Doing for people what they can and ought to do for themselves is a dangerous experiment. In the last analysis, the welfare of the workers depends upon their own initiative. Whatever is done under the guise of philanthropy or social morality which in any way lessens initiative is the greatest crime that can be committed against the toilers. Let social busybodies and professional "public morals experts" in their fads reflect upon the perils they rashly invite under this pretense of social welfare.

People don't save other people. People save themselves.

I don't need other people. I don't need help. I can take care of me.