Quotes About Individuality

I'm sitting in my home office wearing a bathrobe. The same way I'm not going to start wearing ties, I'm also not going to buy into the fake politeness, the lying, the office politics and backstabbing, the passive aggressiveness, and the buzzwords.

Call the mania intellectual integrity, call it impertinence if you will. In any event that impertinence, that intellectual integrity, is one of my most conspicuous traits and one that differentiates me from the majority of my contemporaries.

Jews are just like everyone else, only more so.

It was his notion that the moment one of the people took one of the truths to himself, called it his truth, and tried to live his life by it, he became a grotesque and the truth he embraced became a falsehood.

Comparison is the thief of joy. Theodore Roosevelt

The wise do not classify. The wise do not want to be classified. Classifying people is not classy.

I don't need to roar, for I hold the power of the whisper. I don't have to be black or white ... for I am the color and beauty of creation!

I say long live the bountiful personality. Long live the people who make people mad. Long live the ones who won't listen to sense. Long live the people who are forever getting warned, one of these times, you're going to go too far! Long live the fiery, the unguilty, the unhumble, the dazzling, the cheerful and the brave. Even if they don't live long, even if they look obnoxious or even stupid in a certain light, they're still wonderful and magnificent to me, and they're free free free.

All happy families are alike, but each unhappy family is unhappy in its own way'?" "Anna Karenina.

And what is a marriage except adding A to B and hoping it equals an amount greater than the sum of its parts? Briefly, the promise of a new life almost made the math work. Except A was still A, and B was still B. We could create a new life, but we couldn't stop being ourselves.

Even the most miserable life is better than a sheltered existence in an organized society where everything is calculated and perfected.

Society is not homogeneous, and those who do not deliberately close their eyes have to recognize that men differ greatly from one another from the physical, moral, and intellectual viewpoints.

I always thought the idea of education was to learn to think for yourself.

An invitation to innovation, Radiant Orchid encourages expanded creativity and originality, which is increasingly valued in today's society.

I freely chose the kind of life I led because I was convinced that a woman has as much right as a man to live the way she does if she does no actual harm to society.

If ever it's necessary to ride the bandwagon, it's done with one leg swinging out and eyes scoping the fields.

That millions of people share the same forms of mental pathology does not make these people sane.

A man is culpable in the eyes of society when he escapes from the jurisdiction of its mediocrity.

Education should train the child to use his brains, to make for himself a place in the world and maintain his rights even when it seems that society would shove him into the scrap-heap.

Has there ever been a society which has died of dissent? Several have died of conformity in our lifetime.

Don't worry about society's conditioning and the labels that are put on you by external forces. Hold onto your true self.

If your joy is derived from what society thinks of you, you're always going to be disappointed.

If I should sell both my forenoons and afternoons to society, as most appear to do, I am sure, that, for me, there would be nothing left worth living for.

Religion, politics, society are exploiting you, and you are being conditioned by them; you are being forced in a particular direction. You are not human beings; you are mere cogs in a machine.