Quotes About Individuality

Alexis de Tocqueville took one good hard look at America's growing colonies and noted: "America is the one country in the world where the most continual care has been taken to trace clearly separated lines of action for the two sexes, and where the wish is for them to walk with equal steps, but always on different paths.

If you stay true to yourself, you will always remain on track, even if that track takes you off the beaten path, to places you could not possibly imagine.

She is able to draw the line between who she is and who she is not on every level, so she is able to discriminate without ambivalence—whether it's about a skirt or a man that simply isn't right for her life. It also makes it easy for her to ignore the pressure to be all things to all people, and to appreciate the company of herself—with a book, a glass of wine

Bring your own body.

Fine. You're Lucious Landrum and I'm Annie Oakley. Can I go now?

Qué liberación es por una vez no tener que decir nada y poder callar, pues solo entonces tenemos la posibilidad de crear algo singular: algo que realmente vale la pena ser dicho.

I love it that I'm standing alone, it doesn't bother me, actually I prefer it, actually I don't give a shit. I am a superior being in an alien world. No, in a world of red-faced aliens. That thought tickled her, but only for a minute. Mainly she longed to feel that she wasn't invisible.

realize I hate the word widow. It's sexless. I'm never using it again.)

qui siedo sempre come un maestoso cazzo fra duoi coglioni. [...I always sit here like a majestic prick between two balls.]

If it became customary to go out into the street stark naked I should not be the first nor the last to conform.

If one of them appears in company, he's a grain of yeast which ferments and gives back to everyone some part of his natural individuality. He shakes things up. He agitates us.

The best order of things, to my way of thinking, is the one I was meant to be part of, and to hell with the most perfect of worlds if I am not of it.

It wasn't that she expected to be known by all the bank's employees; it was just that she had been lovely once, and had never really believed that time would make her faceless.

Basically, the idea is that with everyone striving to be revolutionary, you will be the most revolutionary if you try to be ordinary.

someday..., we'll medicate human experience right out of the human experience.

You don't have a partner, Marshal, You came here alone.

Choice, I've always believed, is all that separates us from animals.

People just want you to see them as they hope to be seen. And everyone wants to be seen as interesting.

One of the saddest facts of the human condition is that most people follow the herd. Sometimes, of course, the herd is morally right. That, obviously, is the ideal. But most good is achieved by individuals who have the courage to part from the majority when it is morally wrong. In addition, people tend to act worse in groups than when alone. The herd, not to mention the mob, emboldens people to do bad things they would rarely do if they had no such support.

Humans don't really like freedom of speech, Lukianoff told them, they like to say they like it. And they definitely like their won freedom of speech. They don't necessarily like your freedom of speech that much

I found out everybody's different--the same kind of different as me. We're all just regular folks walkin down the road God done set in front of us.

What am I more than elaborate sentience?

and either I'm nobody, or I'm a nation

Giving the emotion a name is the way we come to understand how what happened affected us. After we've told the facts of what happened, we must face our feelings. We are each hurt in our own unique ways, and when we give voice to this pain, we begin to heal it.