Quotes About Individuality

I always joke that every novel is really about the same thing: one person's struggle against society.

Society has taught us to suppress certain things and not do certain things.

This thing in society that you have to be a stick will always be in my mind, but that's just something I have to deal with.

The role of art in society differs for every artist.

If someone isn't what others want them to be, the other become angry.

Few people are capable of expressing with equanimity opinions which differ from the prejudices of their social enviroment. Most people are incapable of forming such opin

The best things and best people rise out of their separateness I'm against a homogenized society because I want the cream to rise.

Life is too short to waste being a productive member of society.

Often I didn't think I was cut out for the way the world is, being born into a common culture and system I would never choose for myself.

Society destroys your individuality, your soul.

What a sad thing I thought-- to live in a world so concerned with the lives of others, we forget to live our own.

Abnormal – nonsense. Suggests a norm, which is a tag placed on those who don't conform to an elite's view of itself.

There is a madness in me that does not follow society.

Songs don't have to be about going out on Saturday night and having a good rink-up and driving home and crashing cars. A lot of what I've done is about alienation... about where you fit in society.

Society's dark hull drifts further and further away. It is this place - the place of our separation, our distinction - that much of his poetry occupies.

For me, I try and be authentic in my choices and follow my instincts, and I think it's a valuable message for women in today's society to learn to love yourself.

The worst enemy of truth and freedom in our society is the compact majority.

You alone are the judge of your worth and your goal is to discover infinite worth in yourself, no matter what anyone else thinks.

It's no measure of health to be well adjusted to a profoundly sick society.

Throughout life, from childhood, from school until we die, we are taught to compare ourselves with another; yet when I compare myself with another I am destroying myself.

Think for yourself and question authority.

Spiritual life is like living water that springs up from the very depths of our own spiritual experience. In spiritual life everyone has to drink from his or her own well.

If you look to others for fulfillment, you will never be truly fulfilled.

Free yourself from the psychological structure of society, which is to free yourself from the essence of conflict.