Quotes About Individuality

Envy is ever joined with the comparing of a man's self; and where there is no comparison, no envy.

Man is a unique individual. He can never be put in a system where he becomes just another notch. Another nail.

I'm of the mind that your private life is private and you don't need to put everything out there about yourself - but on there, I describe myself as a citizen of the world, a man of music.

My biggest satisfaction is always when I make something beautiful and well-done that I can see on a real man or woman - not only in the glossy magazines.

The freedom that will be used by only one man in a million may be more important to society and more beneficial to the majority than any freedom that we all use.

I believe that man is in the last resort so free a being that his right to be what he believes himself to be cannot be contested.

It is in vain to hope to please all alike. Let a man stand with his face in what direction he will, he must necessarily turn his back on one half of the world.

I love not to be choked with other men's thoughts.

If you are a man, Winston, you are the last man.

There are many more women who identify as unique people as well as mothers, or instead of as mothers, than there used to be and, hopefully, there are more men who identify as fathers.

Every town, like every man, has its own countenance; they have a common likeness and yet are different; one keeps in his mind all their peculiar touches.

People say 'Hofmann has different styles'. I have not. I have different moods; I am not two days the same man.

It is not what he had, or even what he does which expresses the worth of a man, but what he is.

When will the world learn that a million men are of no importance compared with one man?

Whatever has not come under the sway of man is wild. In this sense original and independent men are wild - not tamed and broken by society.

How rarely I meet with a man who can be free, even in thought! We all live according to rule. Some men are bedridden; all world-ridden.

Any man more right than his neighbors constitutes a majority of one already.

There is but little virtue in the action of masses of men.

Men are like trees: each one must put forth the leaf that is created in him.

There is but one world common for those who are awake, but when men are asleep, each turns away into a world of his own.

You might think that it would he the natural desire of every man to develop as an independent personality, but this does not seem to be true.

DIFFERENT NOT LESS

We're all of us sentenced to solitary confinement inside our own skins, for life.

We're all sentenced to solitary confinement inside our own skins, for life.