Quotes About Individuality

He is a human being in kid's clothing. He has the organs and the feeling of his species, but none of the rights. And he is not alone. This country is stewing itself in the notion that you're not a person until you reach voting and drinking age. It's wrong. You don't get it, Doctor (with all due respect), and because you don't get it you can't give it. Let him go home. He isn't crazy, he isn't even strange. We have met the enemy, and he is us.

every individual will develop relations to other persons, to domains of accomplishment, and to his or her self.

Discover your difference—the asynchrony with which you have been blessed or cursed—and make the most of it.

There is nothing more important than being a man, just a plain, ordinary, human man. I know you think Spartacus is something more than a man. He isn't. If he were, then he wouldn't be any good at all. There is no great mystery about Spartacus.

Emile Zola was a poor student at his school at Aix. We are all so different largely because we all have different combinations of intelligences. If we recognize this, I think we will have at least a better chance of dealing appropriately with many problems that we face in the world.

While we may continue to use the words smart and stupid, and while IQ tests may persist for certain purposes, the monopoly of those who believe in a single general intelligence has come to an end. Brain scientists and geneticists are documenting the incredible differentiation of human capacities, computer programmers are creating systems that are intelligent in different ways, and educators are freshly acknowledging that their students have distinctive strengths and weaknesses.

But he didn't have to listen to his father. Taking after your father was optional, wasn't it?

For himself, he wanted to impose his values on no one. He wasn't even sure he knew what his values were.

In my experience people who can't stop making jokes about their identity aren't easy with it. The man of the world accepts who he is and the influences which have made him, and then gets on with living in the world.

Remember: blonde, brunette, and redhead are not personality types.

it has been demonstrated through years of workshops that the Artist Within tends to make the same mistakes as the artist within everybody else.

In real life, couples bond and war over a million different things. The causes of divorce are like beautiful, unique snowflakes.

There is a dialectic between common humanity and particular ways of being human.

I, for one, hope that youth will again revolt and again demoralize the dead weight of conformity that now lies upon us.

I like all my children, even the squat and ugly ones.

If you don't like my queer ways you can kiss my fucking ass

I do believe that it takes a strong dose of alienation to make a good artist or writer in the modern world. You can't be too well-adjusted and still have anything interesting to say.

Look at you.

You can't be a rebel if there aren't any rules.

Follow the grain in your own wood.

A man is a man, no more, no less. The awareness of this fact marks the supreme moment of human dignity.

The desire to be one's true self is ever persistent.

Hair style is the final tip-off whether or not a woman really knows herself.

The great challenge which faces us is to assure that, in our society of big-ness, we do not strangle the voice of creativity, that the rules of the game do not come to overshadow its purpose, that the grand orchestration of society leaves ample room for the man who marches to the music of another drummer.