Alexandre Dumas Quotes

But egoism is more than this. It is the realization by the individual that he is above all institutions and all formulas; that they exist only so far as he chooses to make them his own by accepting them.

Man exists for his own sake, and not to add a laborer to the State.

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

I wash with my own soap-wear my own perfume...got to bed on my own sheets... have my own food products. I live on me.

Whoever regards human beings as a herd and flees them as swiftly as he can will no doubt be overtaken by them and impaled on theirhorns.

I've always been opposed to groups. I can't believe the doctrine of group is going to work for every single person within the group.

I don't believe in a God. I don't believe in any of that stuff to determine my life or my goals or my direction. I just depend on myself.

All I can do is worry about me and my family. I don't really worry about anybody else, they have to do what works for them

I live my own life and nurse my own wounds. It's not the best way to live. But it's the way I am.

Each man must live as an end in himself and follow his own rational self-interest.

Don't consider our interests or desires. You have no duty to anyone but yourself.

The first right on earth is the right of the ego. Man's first duty is to himself. His moral law is never to place his prime goal within the persons of others. His moral obligation is to do what he wishes, provided his wish does not depend primarily upon other men.

The anarch wages his own wars, even when marching in rank and file

I've always had to do things my way; I play guitar my way; I've taken myself to the edges of life my way; I've gotten clean my way; And I'm still here. Whether or not I deserve to be is another story.

Independence is the only gauge of human virtue and value. What a man is and makes of himself; not what he has or hasn’t done for others. There is no substitute for personal dignity.

I believe that the very effort to convert anybody is violence, it is interfering in his individuality, in his uniqueness, into his freedom.

I don't need nobody tryin' to make me over -- I just wanna live simple and free.

I find nothing healthful or exalting in the smooth conventions of society. I do not like the close air of saloons. I begin to suspect myself to be a prisoner, though treated with all this courtesy and luxury. I pay a destructive tax in my conformity.

Neither believe nor reject any thing because any other person, or description of persons have rejected or believed it. Your own reason is the only oracle given you by heaven.

For themselves they fought, for themselves they conquered, and for themselves alone they have they have right to hold.

Collectivism means the subjugation of the individual to a group - whether to a race, class or state does not matter. Collectivism holds that man must be chained to collective action and collective thought for the sake of what is called 'the common good'.

The 'will to power and independence' has become so ubiquitous that it is now considered normal.

I never worry about what they think about me. Because I feel so far away from what my Italian colleagues have done that I almost automatically become an isolated director.

I love not having to rely on anyone.

I call that mind free which protects itself against the usurpations of society, and which does not cower to human opinion: Which refuses to be the slave or tool of the many or of the few, and guards its empire over itself as nobler than the empire of the world.