Quotes About Individuality

The world is not ready for some people when they show up, but that shouldn't stop anyone.

A lion is not a lion is not a lion. As individuals, as mates, as members of a society, they're all very different.

Be brave and celebrate with us your 'perceived flaws,' as society tells us. May we make our flaws famous, and thus redefine the heinous.

The right to religious freedom has its foundation, not in the church or society or the state, but in the very dignity of the human person.

He is free who knows how to keep in his own hands the power to decide at each step, the course of his life, and who lives in a society which does not block the exercise of that power.

How would I myself live in this proposed society? How long would it be before I went stark staring mad?

Men, in general, are not this or that, they are what they are made to be.

Stop trying to be what society's shoving down your throat.

I would as soon put a girl alone into a closet to meditate as give her only the society of her needle.

Jazz is one of the few things you can do in society and express yourself freely and creatively.

Solitude is the one place where we can gain freedom from the forces of society that will otherwise relentlessly mold us. Solitude requires relentless perseverance.

It is not society which is to guide and save the creative hero, but precisely the reverse.

The suppression of inner patterns in favor of patterns created by society is dangerous to us.

If you have to go through life being unhappy to conform to society around you, that's not a very good deal.

In a society in which it is a moral offense to be different from your neighbor your only escape is to never let them find out.

Life is much larger than how we image it, always, but society can be constricting in ways.

People are more complicated than the masks they wear in society.

Freedom necessarily means that many things will be done which we do not like.

Nothing says 'dropping out of society' like learning the banjo.

Society highly values its normal man. It educates children to lose themselves and to become absurd, and thus to be normal.

I try to define myself through my own choices rather than just accepting society's kind of you're that, you're that, let me put you in a box kind of thing.

In a free society, you get what you celebrate.

I have a heart, says science, but I am a monster, says society.

In my day artists wanted to be outcasts, pariahs. Now they are all integrated into society