Albert Einstein Quotes

Every time the government grows we lose more of who we are.

The individual is greater than the state.

Some Socialists seem to believe that people should be numbers in a State computer. We believe they should be individuals. We are all unequal. No one, thank heavens, is like anyone else, however much the Socialists may pretend otherwise. We believe that everyone has the right to be unequal but to us every human being is equally important.

Individuality is to be preserved and respected everywhere, as the root of everything good.

There's no thought given to the individual because there aren't any individuals in socialism; everybody's the same.

When we give government the power to make medical decisions for us, we, in essence, accept that the state owns our bodies.

People who resist authority, who defend the rights of the individual, who try in a period of increasing totalitarianism and centralization to reclaim these rights - this is the true left in the United States.

Labels are for cans, not for people.

Our lives, our liberty, and our property are never in greater danger than when Congress is in session.

People is the name of the body, State of the spirit, of that ruling person that has hitherto suppressed me.

. . . we should be men first, and subjects afterward.

Being an American is about having the right to be who you are. Sometimes that doesn't happen.

Who are they to judge us, simply because our hair is long?

By measuring individual human worth, the novelist reveals the full enormity of the State

I believe for freedom. I believe that people should express themselves the way they want, except as it does in the way that's not nice, but it is what it is.

As government grows, freedom recedes.

Man is more than constitutions.

All that the law can do is to shape things so that no injustice shall be done by one to the other, and that each man shall be given the first chance to show the stuff that is in him.

I look upon an increase in the power of the State with the greatest fear because, although while apparently doing good by minimizing exploitation, it does the greatest harm to mankind by destroying individuality which lies at the heart of all progress.

One must choose between making a man or a citizen, for one cannot make both at the same time.

I support anyone's right to be who they want to be. My question is: to what extent do I have to participate in your self-image?

I decided when I was 19 that I didn't like all these stereotypes that I was supposed to fit into. I wasn't comfortable and they made me very unhappy. So I tried and I spent a miserable summer, and then I went back to school and said, 'I'm going to do my own thing because I think I have a thing to do. I'm not going to live in anybody else's image because I don't like that.' I felt much better. I didn't do it to rebel against anybody or anything.

Because all the societies, all the nations, all the cultures, have taken it for granted that the individuals exist for them, not vice-versa. To me, just the opposite is the case: the society exists for the individual, the culture exists for the individual, the nation exists for the individual. Everything can be sacrificed, but the individual cannot be sacrificed for anything. Individuality is the very flowering of existence - nothing is higher than it. But no culture, no society, no civilization is ready to accept a simple truth.

I am often accused of interfering in the private lives of citizens. Yes, if I did not, had I not done that, we wouldn't be here today. And I say without the slightest remorse, that we wouldn't be here, we would not have made economic progress, if we had not intervened on very personal matters - who your neighbour is, how you live, the noise you make, how you spit, or what language you use. We decide what is right. Never mind what the people think.

Every people, like every person, . . . has a right to be itself.