Quotes about individuality

"The greatest enemy of individual freedom is the individual himself."

Alinsky, Saul on individuality   

"We would worry less about what others think of us if we realized how seldom they do."

Barrett, Ethel on individuality
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"Never follow the crowd."

Baruch, Bernard M. on individuality
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"The privilege of a lifetime is being who you are."

Campell, Joseph on individuality
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"More and more, when faced with the world of men, the only reaction is one of individualism. Man alone is an end unto himself. Everything one tries to do for the common good ends in failure."

Camus, Albert on individuality   

"Pin your faith to no ones sleeves, haven't you two eyes of your own."

Carlyle, Thomas on individuality   

"No one should part with their individuality and become that of another."

Channing, William Ellery on individuality   

"Losing faith in your own singularity is the start of wisdom, I suppose; also the first announcement of death."

Conrad, Peter on individuality   

"Each man must have his I; it is more necessary to him than bread; and if he does not find scope for it within the existing institutions he will be likely to make trouble."

Cooley, Charles Horton on individuality   

"Individuality is the aim of political liberty. By leaving to the citizen as much freedom of action and of being, as comports with order and the rights of others, the institutions render him truly a freeman. He is left to pursue his means of happiness in his own manner."

Cooper, James F. on individuality   

"Individuality is either the mark of genius or the reverse. Mediocrity finds safety in standardization."

Crane, Frederick E. on individuality   

"Follow your own star!"

Dante Alighieri on individuality
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"The trouble with the sacred Individual is that he has no significance, except as he can acquire it from others, from the social whole."

Devoto, Bernard on individuality   

"Everything without tells the individual that he is nothing; everything within persuades him that he is everything."

Doudan, X. on individuality
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"The individual, man as a man, man as a brain, if you like, interests me more than what he makes, because I've noticed that most artists only repeat themselves."

Duchamp, Marcel on individuality   

"Each makes this cosmos and its construction the pivot of his emotional life, in order to find in this way peace and security which he can not find in the narrow whirlpool of personal experience."

Einstein, Albert on individuality   

"Our expenses are all for conformity."

Emerson, Ralph Waldo on individuality   

"A man must consider what a rich realm he abdicates when he becomes a conformist."

Emerson, Ralph Waldo on individuality
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"Do not wish to be anything but what you are, and try to be that perfectly."

Francis De Sales, St. on individuality   

"Every man must get to Heaven his own way."

Frederick The Great, (Frederick II) on individuality
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"The best things and best people rise out of their separateness; I'm against a homogenized society because I want the cream to rise."

Frost, Robert on individuality   

"Be yourself, who else is better qualified?"

Giblin, Frank J. on individuality   

"Each man must grant himself the emotions that he needs and the morality that suits him."

Gourmont, Remy De on individuality   

"In each individual the spirit is made flesh, in each one the whole of creation suffers, in each one a Savior is crucified."

Hesse, Hermann on individuality   

"If I am not for myself, who will be for me? If I am not for others, what am I? And if not now, when?"

Hillel, Rabbi on individuality
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"It is the individual only who is timeless. Societies, cultures, and civilizations --past and present --are often incomprehensible to outsiders, but the individual's hungers, anxieties, dreams, and preoccupations have remained unchanged through the millennia."

Hoffer, Eric on individuality   

"The great challenge which faces us is to assure that, in our society of big-ness, we do not strangle the voice of creativity, that the rules of the game do not come to overshadow its purpose, that the grand orchestration of society leaves ample room for the man who marches to the music of another drummer."

Humphrey, Hubert H. on individuality   

"Writers write to influence their readers, their preachers, their auditors, but always, at bottom, to be more themselves."

Huxley, Aldous on individuality   

"The shoe that fits one person pinches another; there is no recipe for living that suits all cases."

Jung, Carl on individuality
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"Resistance to the organized mass can be effected only by the man who is as well organized in his individuality as the mass itself."

Jung, Carl on individuality
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"Comrades! We must abolish the cult of the individual decisively, once and for all."

Khrushchev, Nikita on individuality   

"The definition of the individual was: a multitude of one million divided by one million."

Koestler, Arthur on individuality   

"A gesture cannot be regarded as the expression of an individual, as his creation (because no individual is capable of creating a fully original gesture, belonging to nobody else), nor can it even be regarded as that person's instrument; on the contrary, it is gestures that use us as their instruments, as their bearers and incarnations."

Kundera, Milan on individuality   

"Except in a few well-publicized instances (enough to lend credence to the iconography painted on the walls of the media), the rigorous practice of rugged individualism usually leads to poverty, ostracism and disgrace. The rugged individualist is too often mistaken for the misfit, the maverick, the spoilsport, the sore thumb."

Lapham, Lewis H. on individuality   

"Be content to be what you are, and prefer nothing to it, and do not fear or wish for your last day."

Martial, Marcus Valerius on individuality
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"In bourgeois society capital is independent and has individuality, while the living person is dependent and has no individuality."

Marx, Karl on individuality   

"But society has now fairly got the better of individuality; and the danger which threatens human nature is not the excess, but the deficiency, of personal Impulses and preferences."

Mill, John Stuart on individuality   

"That so few now dare to be eccentric, marks the chief danger of the time."

Mill, John Stuart on individuality
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"What ever crushes individuality is despotism, no matter what name it is called."

Mill, John Stuart on individuality   

"What is wanted -- whether this is admitted or not -- is nothing less than a fundamental remolding, indeed weakening and abolition of the individual: one never tires of enumerating and indicating all that is evil and inimical, prodigal, costly, extravagant in the form individual existence has assumed hitherto, one hopes to manage more cheaply, more safely, more equitably, more uniformly if there exist only large bodies and their members."

Nietzsche, Friedrich on individuality