Quotes About Individuality

I too am a government.

Mature people relate to each other without the need to merge.

Genius is not a retainer to any emperor.

Society values cooperation over independence, obedience over individuality, and niceness above all else.

Resisting conformity and developing some small eccentricities are among the steps to independence and self-confidence.

Self-sufficiency, independence, the capacity to stand apart, to differ, to resist, and to defy-all are modes of being human.

In the word of no master am I bound to believe.

Remember: no attachment should grow, no clinging should grow. They are all against your independence, your freedom, your individuality.

The member of a primitive clan might express his identity in the formula "I am we"; he cannot yet conceive of himself as an "individual," existing apart from his group.

If we thought more for ourselves we would have very many more bad books and very many more good ones.

He saw in happiness the seeds of independence, and in independence the seeds of revolt.

A man don't always have to eat what he's standing life. If he wants, a man can fix a meal of his own choosing.

If somebody tells me what to do, I will do my best not to do it.

What have I to do with plows? I cut another furrow than you see.

I always had a very strong sense of independence.

Artists have no less talents than ever, their taste, their vision, their sentiment are often interesting; they are mighty in their independence and feeble only in their works.

Pin your faith to no ones sleeves, haven't you two eyes of your own.

I've always had great independence on everything I've done. Nobody's ever told me not to do anything.

I'll never Be such a gosling to obey instinct, but stand As is a man were author of himself And knew no other kin.

the independence of the artist is one of the great safeguards of the freedom of the human spirit.

Was I the only woman in the world who, at my age - and after a lifetime of quite rampant independence - still did not quite feel grown up?

I had no place in any coterie, or in any reciprocal self-advertising. I stood alone. I stood outside. I wanted only to learn. I wanted only to write better.

Courage lies in being oneself, in showing complete independence, in loving what one loves, in discovering the deep roots of one's feelings.

There is a great deal of self-will in the world, but very little genuine independence of character.