Quotes About Individuality

There will never be a really free and enlightened state until the state comes to recognize the individual as a higher and independent power, from which all its own power and authority are derived.

I was just too stubborn to ever be governed by enforced insanity.

If everyone would paint, political re-education would be unnecessary.

We are the things and shapes to come, your freedom's not free of dumb.

I don't want to force my politics on my readers.

The central issue of poetry as of politics is the destiny of the human personality.

In all the poems I've written I've not really engaged in politics, and when I've found myself moving in that direction I've always stopped myself.

Nobody living average, everybody jang-a-lang. Nobody living savage, everybody got change.

Everyone must act according to the dictates of his own reason.

Jesse Jackson has to get back to "I am somebody" instead of "I am some color."

Any system was a straightjacket if you insisted on adhering to it so totally and humorlessly.

Do we dare to be ourselves?' This is the question that counts - and not, 'Must a man be helpless?' ...A man can do something for peace without having to jump into politics.

I'm not a big fan of identity politics and sort of picking one thing and defining yourself with it.

Be out of the mainstream. I'm out of the mainstream. I enjoy it, who wants to be in the mainstream?

It's my view that human dignity - an attribute which for years has been taken by the Left in British politics - resides in fact in Tory values of independence, individuality and self determination.

Politics is too often regarded as a poor relation, inherently dependent and subsidiary; it is rarely praised as something with a life and character of its own.

I realize it's probably best to keep my politics to myself.

Stand up, speak out, and be bold. Screw political correctness. Never let them tell you to sit down and shut up.

The price of freedom—of individuality—is attention to politics, careful planning, careful organization; philosophy is no more a barrier against political disaster than it is against plague.

Art has nothing to do with politics. It is the freest thing in the world.

I'm a girl, but that doesn't mean I don't appreciate greatness and the struggle of sports. My situation - and I've always said this, even in politics - is may the best man win. I'm not team-bound.

Live life as though nobody is watching, and express yourself as though everyone is listening.

We must not allow other people's limited perceptions to define us.

The most important thing you wear is your personality.