Quotes About Individuality

We relinquished our freedom that day, and we were more than happy to see it go. From that moment on we lived in true freedom, the freedom to point to someone else and say "They told me to do it! It's their fault, not mine." The freedom, God help us, to say "I was only following orders."-World War Z

People are going to behave however the social norms permit, and beyond that.

If you compare yourself to others, you may become vain and bitter; for always there will be greater and lesser persons than yourself.

Be yourself. Especially do not feign affection. Neither be cynical about love, for in the face of all aridity and disenchantment, it is as perennial as the grass.

Every uniform corrupts one's character.

Oh, this yearning to be white, this yearning to have straight hair, this lifelong striving to be different from the way one is created this great difficulty in accepting oneself, I knew it and saw only my own longing from outside, saw the absurdity of our yearning to be different from what we are...

Ich kann es nicht ausstehen, wenn man mir sagt, was ich zu empfinden habe; dann komme ich mir, obschon ich sehe, wovon die Rede ist, wie ein Blinder vor.

Well-informed cynicism is only another mode of conformity.

Life is a hard school for u know not wat level of class u r in, wat exam u will have, and u can't copy bcoz nobody else has the same paper… HARSHIT AGRAWAL

A man who wants to lead the orchestra must turn his back on the crowd.

You are the only you God made... God made you and broke the mold.

You weren't an accident. You weren't mass produced. You aren't an assembly-line product. You were deliberately planned, specifically gifted, and lovingly positioned on the earth by the Master Craftsman.

He loves each one of us like there is only one of us to love (when God whisper your name)

Remember, you are special because I made you. And I don't make mistakes.

New scientific ideas never spring from a communal body, however organized, but rather from the head of an individually inspired researcher who struggles with his problems in lonely thought and unites all his thought on one single point which is his whole world for the moment.

For only he who is alive is in the right.

Liberate yourself as far as you can, and you have done your part; for it is not given to every one to break through all limits,or,more expressively, not to every one is that a limit which is a limit for the rest. Consequently,do not tire yourself with toiling at the limits of others...He who overturns one of his limits may have shown others the way and the means; the overturning of their limits remains their affair.

Ich bin meine Gattung, bin ohne Norm, ohne Gesetz, ohne Muster und dergleichen.

Mensch, es spukt in deinem Kopfe!

The true human being doesn't lie in the future, an object of longing, but rather it lies in the present, existing and actual. However and whoever I may be, joyful and sorrowful, a child or an old man, in confidence or doubt, asleep or awake, I am it. I am the true human being.

Whoever is a complete person does not need to be an authority.

The person is repulsive to it because of being "egoistic," because of not being that abstraction, Man.

I may be ugly and clumsy, but one thing I'm not, I'm not retarded.

I have a right to my anger, and I don't want anybody telling me I shouldn't be, that it's not nice to be, and that something's wrong with me because I get angry.