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Letter "I" » individualism
«We reveal the fullness of our devotion to individualism by keeping it as a reward for full participation in society. For the prisoner, the chronically ill, the bedridden old and the destitute, we reserve the forced collective life.»
Author: Elaine Cumming
| Keywords:
bedridden, chronically, collective, destitute, devotion, fullness, individualism, participation, prisoner, reserve, The Prisoner
«The surest defense against Evil is extreme individualism, originality of thinking, whimsicality, even / if you will / eccentricity. That is, something that can't be feigned, faked, imitated; something even a seasoned imposter couldn't be happy with.»
Author: Joseph Brodsky
(Poet, Writer)
| Keywords:
Eccentricities, eccentricity, faked, feigned, feigning, imitated, imposter, imposters, individualism, seasoned, surest, whimsicality
«Except in a few well-publicized instances (enough to lend credence to the iconography painted on the walls of the media), the rigorous practice of rugged individualism usually leads to poverty, ostracism and disgrace. The rugged individualist is too often mistaken for the misfit, the maverick, the spoilsport, the sore thumb.»
Author: Lewis H. Lapham
| Keywords:
credence, disgrace, iconography, individualism, individualist, individualists, instances, lend, maverick, mavericks, misfit, misfits, mistaken, ostracism, painted, publicized, rigorous, rugged, rugged individualism, rugged individualist, sore, spoilsport, thumb
«Individualism is rather like innocence; there must be something unconscious about it.»
«The American system of rugged individualism.»
Author: Herbert Hoover
(President)
| Keywords:
American System, individualism, rugged, rugged individualism
«More and more, when faced with the world of men, the only reaction is one of individualism. Man alone is an end unto himself. Everything one tries to do for the common good ends in failure.»
Author: Albert Camus
(Essayist, Novelist, Playwright)
| Keywords:
common good, faced, individualism, more and more, reaction
«Art is the most intense mode of individualism that the world has known.»
Author: Oscar Wilde
(Critic, Dramatist, Novelist, Poet)
| About:
Art
| Keywords:
individualism, intense, mode
«What is termed Sin is an essential element of progress. Without it the world would stagnate, or grow old, or become colorless. By its curiosity Sin increases the experience of the race. Through its intensified assertion of individualism it saves us from monotony of type. In its rejection of the current notions about morality, it is one with the higher ethics.»
Author: Oscar Wilde
(Critic, Dramatist, Novelist, Poet)
| Keywords:
assertion, colorless, ethics, individualism, intensified, intensifies, intensify, monotony, notions, rejection, rejections, saves, stagnate, stagnated, stagnates, termed, The Current
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