Quotes of Individuality - somelinesforyou

“ The cult of individuality and personality, which promotes painters and poets only to promote itself, is really a business. The greater the "genius" of the personage, the greater the profit. ”

- George Grosz

“ In bourgeois society capital is independent and has individuality, while the living person is dependent and has no individuality. ”

- Karl Marx

“ But society has now fairly got the better of individuality; and the danger which threatens human nature is not the excess, but the deficiency, of personal Impulses and preferences. ”

- John Stuart Mill

“ Certain defects are necessary for the existence of individuality. ”

- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

“ Individuality is either the mark of genius or the reverse. Mediocrity finds safety in standardization. ”

- Frederick E. Crane

“ My great mistake, the fault for which I can't forgive myself, is that one day I ceased my obstinate pursuit of my own individuality. ”

- Oscar Wilde

“ No one can transcend their own individuality. ”

- Arthur Schopenhauer

“ No one should part with their 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

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

- John Stuart Mill

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

- Elizabeth Barrett Browning

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

- Alex Grey

“ First and foremost, I consider myself a songwriter. ”

- Kenny Chesney

“ I am a member of a team, and I rely on the team, I defer to it and sacrifice for it, because the team, not the individual, is the ultimate champion. ”

- Mia Hamm

“ Every day that is born into the world comes like a burst of music and rings the whole day through, and you make of it a dance, a dirge, or a life march, as you will. ”

- Thomas Carlyle

“ It is not history which uses men as a means of achieving - as if it were an individual person - its own ends. History is nothing but the activity of men in pursuit of their ends. ”

- Karl Marx

“ Good actors I've worked with all started out making faces in a mirror, and you keep making faces all your life. ”

- Bette Davis

“ Hollywood always wanted me to be pretty, but I fought for realism. ”

- Bette Davis

“ Borrow trouble for yourself, if that's your nature, but don't lend it to your neighbours. ”

- Rudyard Kipling

“ Who do you like better — me or Tom Cruise. ”

- Val Kilmer

“ Talent wins games, but teamwork and intelligence wins championships. ”

- Michael Jordan

“ Remember always that you not only have the right to be an individual, you have an obligation to be one. ”

- Eleanor Roosevelt

“ Pay mind to your own life, your own health, and wholeness. A bleeding heart is of no help to anyone if it bleeds to death. ”

- Frederick Buechner

“ We drink one another's health and spoil our own. ”

- Jerome K. Jerome

“ I know you are, but what am I? ”

- Paul Reubens

“ Be yourself. Above all, let who you are, what you are, what you believe, shine through every sentence you write, every piece you finish. ”

- John Jakes

“ 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

“ There's no freshness. There's no originality. ”

- Joe Keenan

“ The celebration of unbounded individualism means, beyond some point, the acceptance of force - either private (crime, riot, vigilanteism) or public (authoritarianism). ”

- Thomas Sowell

“ Great endowments often announce themselves in youth in the form of singularity and awkwardness. ”

- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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