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Quotes About Individuality

At the heart of liberty is the right to define one's own concept of existence, of meaning, of the universe, and of the mystery of human life.
~ Anthony Kennedy
People have the right to call themselves whatever they like. That doesn't bother me. It's other people doing the calling that bothers me.
~ Octavia E. Butler
What a tiresome place America would be if freedom meant we all had to think alike or be the same color or wear the same gray flannel suit! That road leads to the conformity of the graveyard!
~ John Oliver Killens
Art is the only place you can do what you like. That's freedom.
~ Unknown
Most people are afraid of freedom. They are conditioned to be afraid of it.
~ Herbert Marcuse
White collar conservative flashin' down the street, Pointing that plastic finger at me, Hoping soon my kind will drop and die, But I'm gonna wave my freak flag high.
~ Jimi Hendrix
Freedom is always the freedom of dissenters.
~ Rosa Luxemburg
Art is two things: a search for a road and a search for freedom.
~ Alice Neel
I only ask to be free. The butterflies are free. Mankind will surely not deny to Harold Skimpole what it concedes to the butterflies.
~ Charles Dickens
Without freedom of choice, there is no creativity. Without creativity, there is no life.
~ Benjamin Spock
To be unafraid of the judgement of others is the greatest freedom you can have.
~ Timothy Shriver
The unity of freedom has never relied on uniformity of opinion.
~ John F. Kennedy
Why is it that so few people are truly free? Because they try to conform to ideas, concepts, and beliefs in their heads.
~ Adyashanti
I had spent many years pursuing excellence, because that is what classical music is all about... Now it was dedicated to freedom, and that was far more important.
~ Nina Simone
For the average American, freedom of speech is simply the freedom to repeat what everyone else is saying and no more.
~ Gore Vidal
A simple equation exists between freedom and numbers: the more people, the less freedom.
~ Royal Robbins
Freedom of mind is the proof of one's existence.
~ B. R. Ambedkar
I want freedom, the right to self-expression , everybody's right to beautiful, radiant things.
~ Emma Goldman
The greatest fallacy of democracy is that everyone's opinion is worth the same.
~ Robert A. Heinlein
Take advice, but not orders. Only give yourself orders. Abraham Lincoln once said, 'Since I will be no one's slave, I will be no one's master.'
~ Jim Rohn
At least once a day, allow yourself the freedom to think and dream for yourself.
~ Albert Einstein
Only in those moments when I exercise my freedom am I fully myself.
~ Karl Jaspers
To be oneself is being neither under bond nor borrowed nor sold nor hired. To be, means to be spiritually free.
~ Theo van Doesburg
I believe for freedom. I believe that people should express themselves the way they want, except as it does in the way that's not nice, but it is what it is.
~ Tommy Wiseau