Quotes About Individuality

Every testimony is valid because there is someone out there a lot like you.

hey be ur own heck of a person, and dont copy what other people do or say. cause then it just makes u look really bad, then that person who u copyied will get mad at u. so grow up a little

It doesn't matter how much of an asshole you are, there was always someone who thought you were cool.

In their armor they were all the same, and that was the point, he understood. But he took pleasure in the moments when he could see their variety and diversity—those moments when he could glimpse the people beneath the armor and see them as more than just faceless, nameless soldiers identified by letters and numbers and nothing more.

I don't like limits. Being told what is possible. By man or nature. Just like you." "No," Evan said. "You want to be everything. I want to be one thing well.

You can't be perfect unless you're alone, and then guess what? You're alone. So you're still not perfect.

Don't surround yourself with like-minded people. You'll get limited or radicalized.

each of us is whole and complete unto ourselves.

One person must choose a new way of being and live that difference in the presence of others

She had spoken, her words coming in fragments as her voice faded in and out of hoarseness. "You know," she'd said softly to the throng of listeners, "we're more than this." She'd swung an open hand around to indicate the throng of listeners, the bright lights, the police cars. "We're more than just this.

No one, certainly no teenager, was normal or felt they were. Everyone wore a kind of mask that kept people from really seeing what - or who - was inside

Besides, please bear in mind that no one with anything to say ever said anything about anybody but himself.

Standing on a street corner waiting for no one is power.

Il y avait des femmes, elles étaient là, je les connaissais, leurs familles les poussaient dans des institutions, elles on reçu des chocs électriques. Dans les années 50 si tu étais un homme tu pouvais être un rebelle, mais si tu étais une femme ta famille te bloquait. Il y eut certaines exceptions, je les connaissais, un jour quelqu'un écrira sur elles.

The price of freedomof individualityis attention to politics, careful planning, careful organization; philosophy is no more a barrier against political disaster than it is against plague.

Where most people she knew were recognizably constant, Soter comprised a collection of posturings, guises, a composite of masks, so many that she had no idea if any one of them had ever been the true Soter, or if there had never been anything but masks.

It's funny how strangers can pass in front of you every day and all you see is a flat shadow, a vague outline, not noticing any of the details. They move in a gray crowd, always looking the same and acting the same, simple caricatures of who they really are, but once you get to know them, you notice the specific, tiniest things, you pay attention to the intricacies of their personalities, their habits and particular ways of walking and talking, the subtle changes in their appearance and dress.

As long as people are going to call you a lunatic anyway, why not get the benefit of it? It liberates you from convention.

As long as people are going to call you lunatic anyway, why not get the benefit of it? It liberates you from convention.

Approval is overrated...Approval and disapproval alike satisfy those who deliver it more than those who receive it. I don't care for approval, and I don't mind doing without.

If your gaze takes in the world, a person's a puny thing. If a person is all you see, the rest falls away and she becomes the world.

And because soul music is the limitless affirmation of the individual despite his or her past sins and all obstacles in his or her way

Listening to a song] one could experience a freedom from one's physical body, and from one's social body - the mask you wore to go about in public among those who thought they knew you, an unchosen mask of nervousness and tradition, the mask that, when owrn too long, makes the face behind it shrivel up and rot away. For some, a spinning record opened up the possibility that one might say anything, in any voice, with any face, the singer's mask now a sign of mystery.

I never said, 'I want to be alone.' I only said 'I want to be let alone!' There is all the difference.