Walk Alone

“The individual that sees truth may sometimes walk alone.”
--Jeffrey Fry

Personified Nation

“The nation, like the State, is a personified concept. The nation has no life of its own apart from the individual, and is therefore not an end in itself. All life is individual life, in which alone the ultimate meaning is to be found.”
--Carl Jung

Collectivist Systems

“With collectivist systems, the individual has always been a victim, twisted against him-or-her-self and commanded to be unselfish in sacrificial service to some allegedly higher value called pharaoh or emperor or king or society or the state or the race or the proletariat or the cosmos.”
--Nathaniel Branden

Calls for Unity

“How hypocritical are the calls for a unity that is a mask for the suppression of all opposition, how fatally lying or wrong are all beliefs that liberty is the peculiar attribute of any single individual or group, prince or democrat, nobles or people or multitude.”
--James Burnham

Ideal Government

“The ideal Government of all reflective men, from Aristotle onward, is one which lets the individual alone; one which barely escapes being no government at all.”
--H. L. Mencken

The Mass State

“The mass State has no intention of promoting mutual understanding and the relationship of man to man; it strives, rather, for atomization, for the psychic isolation of the individual.”
--C.G. Jung

Citizen Subjects

“But to the extent that government is strong, the individual is weak, with the result that even if his title is citizen, his position is that of subject.”
--Leopold Kohr

Height of Heroism

“The greatest height of heroism to which an individual can attain is to know how to face ridicule; better still, to know how to make oneself ridiculous and not shrink for the ridicule.”
--Miguel de Unamuno

Mass Intelligence

“Even if a government were superior in intelligence or knowledge to any single individual in the nation, it must be inferior to all the individuals of the nation taken together.”
--John Stewart Mill

Possessions Possessed

“It is a rare individual who is not possessed by their possessions.”
--Jeffrey Fry

Apart from the Tribe

“The individual has always had to struggle to keep from being overwhelmed by the tribe.”
--Rudyard Kipling

Talent is Cheap

“Talent is a dreadfully cheap commodity, cheaper than table salt. What separates the talented individual from the successful one is a lot of hard work and study.”
--Stephen King

Once in a Lifetime

“Do not be a one in a million person, be a once in a lifetime individual.”
--Jeffrey Fry

Be Individual

“To be an individual you need to know yourself. A lot of people don’t want to go through that trouble.”
--Iris Apfel

Human Contribution

“I personally measure success in terms of the contributions an individual makes to her or his fellow human beings.”
--Margaret Mead

Greatest Satisfaction

“The greatest satisfaction you can obtain from life is your pleasure in producing, in your own individual way, something of value to your fellowmen.”
--Neil Gaiman

Money Exposed

“Money does not make the individual, rather it exposes them to whom they are.”
--Randy Barakat