Tuesday
(0)Comrades! We must abolish the cult of the individual decisively, once and for all
- Nikita Khrushchev
The main plank in the National Socialist program is to abolish the liberalistic concept of the individual
- Adolf Hitler
At a time when our entire country is banding together and facing down individualism, the Patriots set a wonderful example, showing us all what is possible when we work together, believe in each other, and sacrifice for the greater good
- Ted Kennedy, 2002
There is the great, silent, continuous struggle: the struggle between the State and the Individual
- Benito Mussolini
We must stop thinking of the individual and start thinking about what is best for society
- Hillary Clinton, 1993
All our lives we fought against exalting the individual, against the elevation of the single person
- Vladimir Lenin
Thanks to James Knowles for compiling these quotes
You are correct.
Whenever people say they are favour of "more than individual liberty" or even "not just individual liberty" - they just mean that they are against individual liberty.
Fancy terms like "class freedom" or "race freedom" or "new freedom" or "new liberty" all just mean slavery.
Paul Marks.
Posted by Paul Marks at November 12, 2002 06:25 PM
All the people quoted had a great deal of individual liberty. Strange.
Posted by zack mollusc at November 12, 2002 06:36 PM
Interestingly, there seems to be a dearth of collections of anti-individualist quotes on the web (as found in a couple of Google searches I've run), but pro-individual collections abound.
Libertarianism continues as the dominant culture of the web.
Posted by Russell Whitaker at November 12, 2002 09:40 PM
You probably missunderstood Nikita Khrushchov's quote: "We must abolish the cult of the individual".
The cult of the individual he wanted to abolish was the cult of Joseph Stalin. The term "cult of the individual" is a code phrase that he used to dethrone Joseph Stalin which was worshiped as some deity. The phrase means: we must stop to worship this particular individual (Joseph Stalin).
It is not that Khrushchov was a friend of individualism, it is just that this quote means something else.
Posted by Jacob at November 12, 2002 09:45 PM
Just one more from Benito:
"We were the first to assert that the more complicated the forms assumed by civilization, the more restricted the freedom of the individual must become."
Benito Mussolini-- quoted in The Road to Serfdom, chapter 4.
Posted by RK Jones at November 13, 2002 05:44 PM
It's funny that people like Hillary Clinton want to do away with individualism, considering that she enjoys the same personal freedoms that everyone else in this country enjoys. I wonder, if individualism was taken away from her if she would still stand by her quote up there?
Posted by Xavier Gold at November 14, 2002 07:53 AM
