Quotes of Individualism - somelinesforyou

“ The trouble with the sacred Individual is that he has no significance, except as he can acquire it from others, from the social whole. ”

- Bernard Devoto

“ The curiosity of the neighbors about you, is a tribute to your individuality, and you should encourage it. ”

- Quentin Crisp

“ Individuality is the aim of political liberty. By leaving to the citizen as much freedom of action and of being, as comports with order and the rights of others, the institutions render him truly a freeman. He is left to pursue his means of happiness in his own manner. ”

- James Fenimore Cooper

“ I have a love interest in every one of my films - a gun. ”

- Arnold Schwarzenegger

“ Art is either plagiarism or revolution. Individuality of expression is the beginning and the end of all art. ”

- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

“ Be yourself, who else is better qualified? ”

- Frank J. Giblin

“ Individuality is freedom lived. ”

- John Dos Passos

“ Your labor only may be sold, your soul must not. ”

- John Ruskin

“ No man should part with his own individuality and become that of another. ”

- William Ellery Channing

“ Resistance to the organized mass can be effected only by the man who is as well organized in his individuality as the mass itself. ”

- Carl Jung

“ Pin your faith to no ones sleeves, haven't you two eyes of your own. ”

- Thomas Carlyle

“ No one should part with their individuality and become that of another. ”

- William Ellery Channing

“ What is genius but the power of expressing a new individuality? ”

- Elizabeth Barrett Browning

“ What ever crushes individuality is despotism, no matter what name it is called. ”

- John Stuart Mill

“ That so few now dare to be eccentric, marks the chief danger of the time. ”

- John Stuart Mill

“ No one can transcend their own individuality. ”

- Arthur Schopenhauer

“ The definition of the individual was: a multitude of one million divided by one million. ”

- Arthur Koestler

“ If I'm going to sing like someone else, then I don't need to sing at all. ”

- Billie Holiday

“ Never follow the crowd. ”

- Bernard Baruch

“ The best thing you've got going for you is individuality. ”

- Richard Thompson

“ American poetry, like American painting, is always personal with an emphasis on the individuality of the poet. ”

- Diane Wakoski

“ A child develops individuality long before he discovers taste. ”

- Erma Bombeck

“ In the age of the individual's liquidation, the question of individuality must be raised anew. ”

- Theodor W. Adorno

“ We have many cases of men committing suicide rather than face their own individuality. I know of no case of a woman who committed suicide because she was gay. ”

- George Weinberg

“ The artist makes things concrete and gives them individuality. ”

- Paul Cezanne

“ In a society that tries to standardize thinking, individuality is not highly prized. ”

- Alex Grey

“ And just because God attains and wins and finds this uniqueness, all our lives win in our union with him the individuality which is essential to their true meaning. ”

- Josiah Royce

“ I believe that every person is born with talent. ”

- Maya Angelou

“ A sister can be seen as someone who is both ourselves and very much not ourselves. ”

- Toni Morrison

“ Individuality is only possible if it unfolds from wholeness. ”

- David Bohm
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