Quotes About Individuality

To educate man is to impede the "free expression of his personality.

The individual who lies to himself, just like the society that does not lie to itself, soon rots and dies.

Modern man accepts any yoke, as long as the hand imposing it is impersonal.

Even between fanatical egalitarians, the briefest encounter reestablishes human inequalities.

My truth is the sum of what I am, not a simple summary of what I think.

Nature didn't tell me Don't be poor; and certainly didn't say: Get rich; but she did shout: Always be independent!

Anyone who has no character is not a man, but a thing.

Nature never said to me: Do not be poor; still less did she say: Be rich; her cry to me was always: Be independent.

D'une manière globale, je dirais que pour écrire, il faut [...] ressentir une profonde insatisfaction devant le discours majoritaire et englobant qui nie les différences et qui sclérose la pensée.

Don't be beautiful, you irritating creature.

My mother dyed my hair red since I was four because I loved Anne of Green Gables and wanted red hair. Not many people know this but my natural hair color is light strawberry blonde. Got my hair from my grandmother's side of the family.

there are two types of people in the world: those who prefer to be sad among others, and those who prefer to be sad alone.

Everything except the freedom to be what she wanted to be - whatever that was. She had to break away. Whether he liked it or not. She had to.

A door to an alternate self. This self was another Alice, not the childhood Alice: capable, free in the world, independent.

As for style, there is something about the way musicians dress-they seem to be able to create their own world within their fashion alone.

Girl power is about loving yourself and having confidence and strength from within, so even if you're not wearing a sexy outfit, you feel sexy.

I have a book out called 'The Beauty Equation' and it discusses how off track we have gone in considering beauty.

our individual differences are a product of our environment or the result of genetic inheritance.

Francis Galton (1822-1911), Darwin's cousin, was keen on evolution and heredity. He founded "Individual Differences" and discovered the uniqueness of finger-prints (1892). Galton was also an obsessive counter and measurer. He even counted yawns and coughs at lectures and theatres – trying to produce a "boredom measure"!

Always remember that you are absolutely unique. Just like everyone else. Margaret Mead, US anthropologist (1901–78)

Always remember that you are absolutely unique. Just like everyone else. Margaret Mead, anthropologist (1901–78) F

Hören Sie auf niemanden, der Ihnen sagt, Sie sollten nicht allein trinken.

I'm painting color squares. One square - one color. That's what I paint.

And, in a funny way, each death is different and you mourn each death differently and each death brings back the death you mourned earlier and you get into a bit of a pile-up.