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Quotes About Individuality

Any man who does not have his inner world to translate is not an artist.
~ Theophile Gautier
Do not let your peace depend on the hearts of men; whatever they say about you, good or bad, you are not because of it another man, for as you are, you are.
~ Thomas a Kempis
If a man is to be a man, a free spirit unto himself, he must arm himself not only with weapons but with ideals and concepts he is willing to die for.
~ William Powell
Every man in the world is better than someone else and not as good someone else.
~ William Saroyan
O, the difference of man and man! To thee a woman's services are due.
~ William Shakespeare
A man is entitled to draw things in his own style. I didn't hurt Superman. I made him powerful. I admire Superman, but I've got to do my own style.
~ Jack Kirby
A soul,--a spark of the never-dying flame that separates man from all the other beings of earth.
~ James F. Cooper
A man can certainly be a Muppet. Being a Muppet is a state of mind. It's about finding that little part of you that's unique, and not being embarrassed by it, but cherishing it.
~ Jason Segel
A wise man shall overrule his stars, and have a greater influence upon his own content than all the constellations and planets of the firmament.
~ Jeremy Taylor
Again, I maintain that no organization can lead man to spirituality.
~ Jiddu Krishnamurti
The wave of the future is not the conquest of the world by a single dogmatic creed but the liberation of the diverse energies of free nations and free men.
~ John F. Kennedy
I would rather be the first man in a barbarian village than the second man in Rome.
~ Julius Caesar
No man can be explained by his personal history, least of all a poet.
~ Katherine Anne Porter
Men are entitled to equal rights-but to equal rights to unequal things.
~ Charles James Fox
His hustle was wrong, his mind was his own, but the man lived alone, oh, Superfly.
~ Curtis Mayfield
Men are not free when they're doing just what they like. Men are only free when they're doing what the deepest self likes. And there is getting down to the deepest self! It takes some diving.
~ D. H. Lawrence
Be kind, man - don't be mankind.
~ Don Van Vliet
Since the world never faults a man who refuses to yield...it is generally recognized that weak men live in obedience to the world's will, while the strong obey only their own.
~ Giacomo Leopardi
Don't shave, don't shower, don't care. Be really stinky and wear the same clothes every day. I think what makes a man sexy is not being self-aware. That's what's really cute to me.
~ Gwen Stefani
The real wonder is not that one man should be a genius, but that every man should not be.
~ Mary Hunter Austin
It would be better for me ... that multitudes of men should disagree with me rather than that I, being one, should be out of harmony with myself.
~ Plato
By nature all men are equal in liberty, but not in other endowments.
~ Thomas Aquinas
I fear uniformity. You cannot manufacture great men any more than you can manufacture gold.
~ John Ruskin
It is the dissimilarities and inequalities among men which give rise to the notion of honor; as such differences become less, it grows feeble; and when they disappear, it will vanish too.
~ Alexis de Tocqueville