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Quotes About Individuality

There is nothing so wrong as accepting a thing merely because men who have done things say it should be so.
~ Alfred Stieglitz
Men are recognizing that they have been forced to conform to a very narrow and rather two-dimensional picture of maleness and manhood that they have never had the freedom to question.
~ Andrew Cohen
I'm more of a man than any liberal.
~ Ann Coulter
I can't claim I'm truly a man's man, I'm just as much of a dork and a crybaby sometimes as anybody else.
~ Anson Mount
A man is his own best friend; therefore he ought to love himself best.
~ Aristotle
Men cannot be treated as units in operations of political arithmetic because they behave like the symbols for zero and the infinite , which dislocate all mathematical operations.
~ Arthur Koestler
Perhaps the final hour is come I have left no testament Only a pen, for my mother I am no hero in an age without heroes I just want to be a man.
~ Bei Dao
A man's penmanship is an unfailing index of his character, moral and mental, and a criterion by which to judge his peculiarities of taste and sentiments.
~ Bill Vaughan
Most men live like raisins in a cake of custom.
~ Brand Blanshard
Look at me - a big old black man under all of this makeup, and if I can look beautiful, so can you.
~ RuPaul
A man must have limits and cannot give in to the wild desires to be everything and everyone and everything to everyone.
~ Saul Bellow
Because of my personal history, my professional skills and my business achievements, I am a man nobody can expect to compare himself with.
~ Silvio Berlusconi
All men come into this world alone and leave it alone.
~ Thomas de Quincey
How do you expect to arrive at the end of your own journey if you take the road to another man's city?
~ Thomas Merton
Let us leave every man at liberty to seek into him and to lose himself in his ideas.
~ Voltaire
Man stands alone in the universe, responsible for his condition, likely to remain in a lowly state, but free to reach above the stars.
~ Walter Kaufmann
If a man wants to be an artist, he should never look at pictures.
~ Winslow Homer
What I cannot live with may not bother another man's conscience. The result is that conscience will stand against conscience.
~ Hannah Arendt
One must not live one's life through men but must be complete on oneself as a woman of substance.
~ Helen Fielding
What ought a man be? Well, my short answer is 'himself'.
~ Henrik Ibsen
Let every man come to God in his own way.
~ Henry Ward Beecher
And what is it, thought I, after all! It's only his outside; a man can be honest in any sort of skin.
~ Herman Melville
Each man's life represents a road toward himself, an attempt at such a road, the intimation of a path. No man has ever been entirely and completely himself.
~ Hermann Hesse
If someone were to put a proposition before men bidding them choose, after examination, the best customs in the world, each nation would certainly select its own
~ Herodotus