Quotes About Individuality

Only sheep need a Shepard.

my mother gave me islam.my father gave me the god of absence.and here i am.a religion made of myself.

...if you give such a creature two blows with a whip, there are, indeed, two pains: but there is no co-ordinating self which can recognise that 'I have had two pains'.

Mum, " she frowned "if one has freedom of worship to either be a Christian, Muslim, Jew, Buddhist or pagan: why can't one have freedom to marry whoever or whatever one loves?

Thou shalt not follow someone, merely because they are following you.

5 mins after your birth, they decide your name, nationality, religion & sect & you spend rest of your life defending something you didn't choose.

To be true to one's own freedom is, in essence, to honor and respect the freedom of all others.

Deal with yourself as a individual, worthy of respect and make everyone else deal with you the same way.

Every man is to be respected as an absolute end in himself; and it is a crime against the dignity that belongs to him as a human being, to use him as a mere means for some external purpose.

Equality is not in the natural order of things, and the crusade to make everyone equal in every respect (except before the law) is certain to have disastrous consequences.

I don't see how you can respect yourself if you must look in the hearts and minds of others for your happiness.

So what if I'm smokin' weed onstage and doing what I gotta do? It's not me shooting nobody, stabbing nobody, killing nobody. It'sa peaceful gesture and they have to respect that and appreciate that.

Better to write for yourself and have no public, than to write for the public and have no self.

You would not exist if you did not have something to bring to the table of life.

I don't believe in anything, only in myself, but I respect all people who believe in something.

The ultimate mystery is one's own self.

A fruit salad is delicious precisely because each fruit maintains its own flavor.

Privacy is an inherent human right, and a requirement for maintaining the human condition with dignity and respect.

I've always treated my children as beings in their own right. I respect their feelings and aspirations entirely.

It does seem quite ironic to me that the very people who clearly have made no attempt to think for themselves are always the most vocal in demanding respect for their "ideas".

If I am not I, who will be?

Traditional morality ... does not teach us how to let the other follow his or her own path, meet with whomever he or she desires, go where he or she wants.

I have to respect my life, and free expression is part of my life. I can never really silence myself.

You may have the right to live anyway you like, but you don't have a right to have other people like it. Respect it or pay for it.