Non-conformism is the major, perhaps the only, sin of our time.

The function of the society is to cultivate the individual. It is not the function of the individual to support society.

Let those who would affect singularity with success first determine to be very virtuous, and they will be sure to be very singular.

We are not on the way to greater individualism, but are becoming an increasingly manipulated mass civilization.

How can can one defend the sober virtues of Protestant individualism by disaffiliating from the world?

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

True individualists tend to be quite unobservant; it is the snob, the would-be sophisticate, the frightened conformist, who keeps a fascinated or worried eye on what is in the wind.

The man who walks alone is soon trailed by the F.B.I.

American individualism, much celebrated and cherished, has developed without its essential corrective, which is belonging.

Individualism and mobility are at the core of American identity