Quotes About Individuality

A writer should not run around with a mirror for his countrymen; he should tell his society and his times things no one ever thought before.

When an individual is awake, almost all he does and says is inspired by the model of behavior that the society imposes,even without his being aware of it.

In the sleeping state, instead, one is much more oneself, even if society never ceases to intervene.

It taught me, at an early age, that being wrong can be dangerous, but being right, when society regards the majority's falsehood as truth, could be fatal.

Love of privacy - perhaps because of the increasing exactions of society - has become in many people almost pathological.

Every person's life is theirs by right. An individual's life can and must belong only to to himself, not to any society or community, or he is then but a slave.

Each person was himself one alone. One oneness, a unit in a society, but always afraid, always alone. If I should scream, if I should call for help, would anyone hear would it even matter?

People are too various to be treated so lightly. I am too various to be trusted.

What are we promoting in society? Well-behaved automatons that spew back what they learned in a book. That's not science. You can get a parrot to do that.

The only unique contribution you can offer the world is to be who you actually are and no one else.

I think in society and especially in movies and media we're fed this idea that there's the one or the right person. I think it brings great ambiguity and confusion for people.

In exiling myself I am not exiling a monster, but a man whom society will not allow to live, since it considers one of the mysterious cogs in God's masterpiece to be a mistake.

If we can just try every day to be the best versions of ourselves, we are offering to the world the best addition to society.

The artist's task is to become a successful eccentric, a strange but wise duck able to venture out of solitary confinement and mingle among society.

I had been pretty well made a prisoner by school, by society. I had been given this description of the world that I couldn't accept.

Society tells you that when you're old you have to retire. You have to defy that.

I serve society by rocking!

I don't function well in certain aspects of society, and you can read into that what you will.

Words are like leaves,. . .like people really, fond of their own society.

Only sometimes I try to think about it in context. When I think about the context of, "Oh, I'm this or that," in this society, that's one of the terms.

We don't have a unitary society anymore, you know; it's very fragmented. I look up and down my block in Silverlake and there is a different universe in every house.

Like many nonconformist and beat generation writers, William S. Burroughs takes the outcasts of society as his theme.

The hero's will is not that of his ancestors nor of his society, but his own. This will to be oneself is heroism.

You think I alienate myself from society? Of course I alienate myself from society. It's the only way I know of not being constantly reminded of all the ways I'm alienated from society.