Definition of Individualism

Individualism

The quality of being individual; individuality; personality.

An excessive or exclusive regard to one's personal interest; self-interest; selfishness.

The principle, policy, or practice of maintaining individuality, or independence of the individual, in action; the theory or practice of maintaining the independence of individual initiative, action, and interests, as in industrial organization or in government.

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Individualism Quotations

Art is the most intense mode of individualism that the world has known.
Oscar Wilde

I don't envisage collectivism. There is no such animal, it is always individualism, sometimes the rest vote and sometimes they do not, and if they do they do and if they do not they do not.
Gertrude Stein

In Italy, the Milanese are well organized but follow bourgeois taste. They adhere to certain codes of elegance, but not to individualism.
Christian Lacroix

Those nations of artists, finding their own individualism, and kind of standing against the world: to me that's the ultimate nightmare. I want to get lost and diffused in the world.
Robert Wyatt

I'm very practical. What I'm reaching for is individualism for women.
Kathleen Turner

There's been a boiling down of real emotion into a set pattern instead of individualism.
Skeet Ulrich

I pattern my actions and life after what I want. No two people are alike. You might admire attributes in others, but use these only as a guide in improving yourself in your own unique way. I don't go for carbon copies. Individualism is sacred!
Richard Chamberlain

What's natural and right is to go with the energy of how it all has to work together. What's natural and right is interconnectedness, not individualism. What is natural and right is respect for the system, not killing the system. What's natural and right is love.
Susan Powter

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

The 19th century was the age of Individualism; the 20th and 21st are the ages of Socialism.
Francis Parker Yockey

In Jefferson's mind democracy was tantamount to extreme individualism.
Herbert Croly

Standardization of our educational systems is apt to stamp out individualism and defeat the very ends of education by leveling the product down rather than up.
Harvey Cushing

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Individualism Translations

individualism in German is Individualismus
individualism in Spanish is individualismo

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