Quotes About Individuality

Being intelligent is not a felony, but most societies evaluate it as at least a misdemeanor.

The more identities a man has, the more they express the person they conceal.

Honestly, orthodoxy concerns me about as much as it concerns your average jackrabbit. I only follow rules that take me where I want to go. If there aren't any rules, I make up my own (and follow them strictly).

They say there is nothing new under any sun. But if each life is not new, each single life, then why are we born?

Whenever they tell me children want this sort of book and children need this sort of writing, I am going to smile politely and shut my earlids. I am a writer, not a caterer. There are plenty of caterers. But what children most want and need is what we and they don't know they want and don't think they need, and only writers can offer it to them.

It's not a weapon or a woman can make a man, or magery either, or any power, anything but himself.

The more defensive a society, the more conformist.

I am an unconventional beauty. I grew up in a high school where if you didn't have a nose job and money and if you weren't thin, you weren't cool, popular, beautiful. I was always told that I wasn't pretty enough to be on television.

I would tell 17-year-olds to be proud of who you are. Don't try to change yourself for others. Focus on school and your future. Boys and friends will come and go, just focus on you and your future.

Every healthy person hungers. To know things for himself. Form his own questions, test his own ideas. Funny how a person's own family is often the first to punish him for that.

She wanted to say in a voice thick and passionate, "you're so wrong", but what was the point of saying that when they didn't realize their rules were only that, their rules, and not some absolute, pre-existing creed that was their mission to interpret and protect?

Some people see their spouses as separate from them,' Megan says. 'And some people see their spouses as an extension of them, and that informs their attitude and behavior.

like it or not, what we dress in is a direct reflection of who we are personally, socially, and historically.

Katniss should have the most reasons to hate, having been sent into the arena not once, but twice. But despite everything she's been through, she's still capable of seeing the so-called "enemy" as individuals rather than as a monolithic entity. She remembers that Octavia snuck her a roll rather than see her hungry and that Flavius had to quit during the Quarter Quell because he couldn't stop crying.

following the herd was not a good thing, that it was a terrible thing to do

Als liefde of de Geest van God een mens raakt, wordt hij getransformeerd, hij klemt zichzelf niet langer vast aan zijn afzonderlijke individualiteit

Our dangers, as it seems to me, are not from the outrageous but from the conforming; not from those who rarely and under the lurid glare of obloquy upset our moral complaisance, or shock us with unaccustomed conduct, but from those, the mass of us, who take their virtues and their tastes, like their shirts and their furniture, from the limited patterns which the market offers.

Almost everyone today is brain-damaged by our education which is designed to produce docile automatons.

Individual societies begin in harmonious adaptation to the environment and, like individuals, quickly get trapped into nonadaptive, artificial, repetitive sequences. When the individual's behavior and consciousness get hooked to a routine sequence of external actions, he is a dead robot, and it is time for him to die and be reborn. Time to "drop out," "turn on," and "tune in."

I despise followers of any kind, especially those who follow me.

I think you can have moderate success by copying something else, but if you really want to knock it out of the park, you have to do something different and take chances.

Everybody has to think for himself. A right way for a big man may not be a right way for a small man. A right way for someone who is slow may not be a right way for someone who is quick. Each person must understand his weaknesses and his strengths.

The meaning of life is that it is to be lived, and it is not to be traded and conceptualized and squeezed into a pattern of systems.

I do my thing, and you do your thing. I am not in this world to live up to your expectations. And you are not in this world to live up to mine. You are you and I am I, And if by chance we find each other, it's beautiful. If not, it can't be helped.