Quotes About Individuality

If society fits you comfortably enough, you call it freedom.

Why had I wasted all my time pretending to be someone I wasn't? I was tired, so very, very tired of standing on my own brakes. I felt...right. I felt free.

Children should have enough freedom to be themselves - once they've learned the rules.

I have the freedom to take chances, to say no. I have the freedom to be who I really want to be, rather than have to conform to this or that just to stay alive.

A merging of two people is an impossibility, and where it seems to exist, it is a hemming-in, a mutual consent that robs one party or both parties of their fullest freedom and development.

When we are totally faithful to our own individuality, we are actually following a very intricate design. This kind of freedom is the opposite of "just anything".

Freedom of association includes the freedom not to associate.

Proving one's freedom will often mean insisting on the most arbitrary, odd, unrepeatable aspects of one's behavior.

But just playing the partner of someone famous, I had a lot more freedom.

If we stop defining each other by what we are not and start defining ourselves by who we are we can all be freer. And this is what HeforShe is about. It's about freedom.

I don't like telling really talented people who are amazing what they should do. I'm just going to let them be. It has to be complete freedom - creativity has to be complete freedom.

Where the realm of freedom of thought and action begin, the determination of individuals according to generic laws ends.

I think the people are just looking for freedom in music...There's a lot of she-bop she-bop going on out there. Maybe they're tired of that same old thing.

Yet where is your inner value when you no longer know what it is to breathe freely; when you no longer have freedom over your own selves

Play, and escaping the ideology one grew up in, is freedom.

Choice springs from the totality of the person. Thus, to study, to analyze what a person is, does not eliminate the idea of freedom.

Each in the cell of himself is almost convinced of his freedom.

Imperfection is a core dimension of freedom.

The only law which is really lived up to wholeheartedly and with a vengeance is the law of conformity.

I believe in freedom of expression, and I believe that societies thrive when they permit freedom of expression.

I've always discovered things for myself, in marvelous freedom.

Freedom is what beauty feels like when it can most express itself.

My music is like my freedom space.

Character is not the enemy of self-expression and personal freedom, it is their necessary precondition.