#individualistic

This very individualistic form of Protestant Christianity that became so basic in English and then American life is to a large degree responsible for the historical success of Britain and America. ↗

— Walter Russell Mead

#american #american life #basic #became #britain

The decadent international but individualistic capitalism in the hands of which we found ourselves after the war is not a success. It is not intelligent. It is not beautiful. It is not just. It is not virtuous. And it doesn't deliver the goods. ↗

— John Maynard Keynes

#beautiful #capitalism #decadent #deliver #found

An individual has not started living until he can rise above the narrow confines of his individualistic concerns to the broader concerns of all humanity. ↗

— Martin Luther King, Jr.

#broader #concerns #confines #his #humanity

When we are honest - that's my saying - if we are honest then we will reveal ourselves. But we do not have to make an effort to be individualistic, different from others. ↗

— Josef Albers

#effort #honest #individualistic #make #others

Our country was thereby saved from the consequences of its distracting individualistic conception of democracy, and its merely legal conception of nationality. It was because the followers of Jackson and Douglas did fight for it, that the Union was preserved. ↗

— Herbert Croly

#conception #consequences #country #democracy #did

In an individualistic culture, the narcissist is God's gift to the world. In a collectivist society, the narcissist is God's gift to the collective. ↗

— Christopher Lasch

#culture #gift #god #individualistic #narcissist

I have always liked running, so it wasn't particularly difficult to make it a habit. All you need is a pair of running shoes and you can do it anywhere. It does not require anybody to do it with, and so I found the sport perfectly fits me as a person who tends to be independent and individualistic. ↗

— Haruki Murakami

#anybody #anywhere #difficult #does #fits

The French are very individualistic. ↗

— Eric Rohmer

#individualistic #very