Quotes About Individuality

You should make no effort to try to join society, stay right where you are. Give your name and serial number and wait for society to come to you.

In every society, the artists will be the ones who set themselves up as contrary to whatever the society expects.

As a human being, member of society, you must clearly state your mind. It's a responsibility. It is the way you identify yourself otherwise you don't know who you are and why you are here.

One of the sad commentaries on the way women are viewed in our society is that we have to fit one category. I have never felt that I had to be in one category.

The Right of all members of society to form their own beliefs and communicate them freely to others must be regarded as an essential principle of a democratically organized society.

We believe in a society in delusion, and if you're awake and not deluded people tell you you're mad. That's why I'm a freak and they're not. But I'm actually not.

It's good to know that if I behave strangely enough, society will take full responsibility for me.

Ordinary society is like a paperweight on you: it won't allow you to fly.

My idea of society is that while we are born equal, meaning that we have a right to equal opportunity, all have not the same capacity.

Society just has a way of inhibiting you, which is good and bad.

We built this [socialistic] society not for the curbing of personal liberty, but in order that human personalities should really feel free.

The first thing to learn in intercourse with others is non-interference with their own particular ways of being happy, provided those ways do not assume to interfere by violence with ours.

If you want to use a cliche you must take full responsibility for it yourself and not try to fob it off on anon., or on society.

And please don't call me that." I didn't call you 'that', I called you George Washington.

You define beauty for yourself, society doesn't define your beauty. Your spirit and your faith defines your beauty.

It is our nature to conform; it is a force which not many can successfully resist. What is its seat? The inborn requirement of self-approval.

I think if you give in and accept society's stereotypes, then you start thinking, 'I cannot dance till late at night because I'm 70.'

They're animals, all right. But why are you so goddam sure that makes us human beings?

The marriage vow is an absurdity imposed by society.

The greatest of people that have ever been in society, they were never versions of someone else. They were themselves.

Society evolves not by shouting each other down, but by the unique capacity of unique, individual human beings to comprehend each other.

Society is always trying in some way to grind us down to a single flat surface.

My communism attempts basically to create a shared society, that's all; a shared society in which individuality will flourish, along with love, and along with mutual respect.

To find freedom and happiness in each others' arms, or you know, inside their own bodies and minds. That is a very empowering thing in a society that's trying to control us all the time.