Ayn Rand Quotes

When I was young, I was all about personal sovereignty and that junk, because there was no privacy and the available ideologies were collective, both socialism/communism and nationalism.

America is the most individualist, libertarian culture in the world.

I think cultures that emphasize individualism, entrepreneurship, realism, liberty and private property are superior to cultures that emphasize collectivism, adherence to ancient ritual, mysticism, subjugation to the group, and communal property.

Collectivism, as an intellectual power and a moral ideal, is dead. But freedom and individualism, and their political expression, capitalism, have not yet been discovered.

You got to live for yourself, yourself and nobody else.

I tend to really be partial to Ayn Rand, and to The Fountainhead and Atlas Shrugged.

I myself have been on my own and utterly independent since I graduated. I haven't belonged to any company or any system. It isn't easy to live like this in Japan.

I'm a very individualistic person. That is why I don't belong to any political party or anything. I really believe in justice and freedom.

I am not in this world to live up to other people's expectations, nor do I feel that the world must live up to mine.

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

We have built our State on the freedom of personal adventure.

I appreciate individualism.

That's what we do in this country. That's the American Dream. That's freedom, and I'll take it any day over the supervision and sanctimony of the central planners.

Alaskans are basically 'leave me alone' type people who respect and embrace different strokes.

The reason I got involved in public service, by and large, if I had to credit one thinker, one person, it would be Ayn Rand. The fight we are in here, make no mistake about it, is a fight of individualism versus collectivism.

I am a rank individualist.

I guess I'm just fiercely independent.

I am anti-ideological. Ideology destroys your freedom. It binds you to the herd.

Individualism and Socialism

The history of this country was made largely by people who wanted to be left alone.

Individualism is to collectivism as capitalism is to socialism

The liberty to live for self alone becomes in time a weary bondage.

I swear by my life, and my love of it, that I will never live for the sake of another man, nor ask another man to live for mine.

I don't like the spirit of socialism – I think freedom is the basis of everything.

… the true individualist must regard power over others as preeminently something to be loathed and shunned.