Individuality Quotes

The greatest enemy of individual freedom is the individual himself.

Saul Alinsky

The work of the individual still remains the spark that moves mankind forward.

Igor Sikorsky

The present representative of the Dedlocks is an excellent master. He supposes all his dependents to be utterly bereft of individual characters, intentions, or opinions, and is persuaded that he was born to supersede the necessity of their having any. If he were to make a discovery to the contrary, he would be simply stunned would never recover himself, most likely, except to gasp and die.

Charles Dickens

A arte é a mais intensa forma de individualismo que o mundo conhece.

Oscar Wilde

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

Frederick E. Crane

There used to be a real me, but I had it surgically removed.

Peter Seller

Be yourself, who else is better qualified?

Frank J. Giblin

Losing faith in your own singularity is the start of wisdom, I suppose; also the first announcement of death.

Peter Conrad

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

Our culture promotes individuality, while the Amish are deeply entrenched in community. To us, if someone stands out, it's no big deal because diversity is respected and expected. To the Amish, there's no room for deviation from the norm. It's important to fit in, because that similarity of identity is what defines the society. If you don't fit in, the consequences are psychological tragic, you stand alone when all you've ever known is being part of the group.

Jodi Picoult

At present nothing is possible except to extend the area of sanity little by little. We cannot act collectively. We can only spread our knowledge outwards from individual to individual, generation after generation.

George Orwell

There is more simplicity in the man who eats caviar on impulse than in the man who eats Grape Nuts on principle.

G. K. Chesterton

There are no ordinary people.

C.S. Lewis

Let every man judge according to his own standards, by what he has himself read, not by what others tell him.

Albert Einstein

Every single one of us can do things that no one else can do -- can love things that no one else can love. We are like violins. We can be used for doorstops, or we can make music. You know what to do.

Barbara Sher

Never forget that you are one of a kind. Never forget that if there weren't any need for you in all your uniqueness to be on this earth, you wouldn't be here in the first place. And never forget, no matter how overwhelming life's challenges and problems seem to be, that one person can make a difference in the world. In fact, it is always because of one person that all the changes that matter in the world come about. So be that one person.

Richard Buckminster Fuller

Practical to the end, it is the poem of his existence that triumphed finally;...

William Carlos Williams, The Spa

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

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