Quotes about Individuality

You must pay for conformity. All goes well as long as you run with conformists. But you, who are honest men in other particulars, know that there is alive somewhere a man whose honesty reaches to this point also, that he shall not kneel to false gods, and, on the day when you meet him, you sink into the class of counterfeits.

Is it so bad, then, to be misunderstood? Pythagoras was misunderstood, and Socrates, and Jesus, and Luther, and Copernicus, and Galileo, and Newton, and every pure and wise spirit that ever took flesh. To be great is to be misunderstood.

Make your own Bible. Select and collect all the words and sentences that in all your readings have been to you like the blast of a trumpet.

I'm not a beatnik. I'm a Catholic.

Charles Manson ate apples. That doesn't mean I'm not going to.

It is the ability to choose which makes us human.

Chris Rock does the political thing really well, but that never worked for me.

I'm not a character like Rapunzel or Cinderella; my story looks like any other.

Thou shalt make no image, no abstraction, including none of THE American, THE Swiss, THE German.

Man will be what he was born to be: free and independent.

No two men are absolutely alike, not even twins, yet there is much that is indispensably common to all mankind.

Man must never be treated as a means to the end of the state, but always as an end within himself.