Individuality Quotes - Page 5

I have never listened to anyone who criticized my taste in space travel, sideshows or gorillas. When this occurs, I pack up my dinosaurs and leave the room.

To me, the haircut represented beauty and strength, that I was a woman who would live her life without the boundaries imposed upon her by other people.

Why does it scare me to think I might be ordinary? I remember when I started first grade and I could hardly pay attention for fear I wouldn't learn to read and write. I didn't want to be like everyone else. I didn't want to have to learn. I wanted to know everything already

Remember, the opposite of bravery is not cowardice, but conformity.

Forming grammatically correct sentences is for the normal individual the prerequisite for any submission to social laws. No one is supposed to be ignorant of grammaticality; those who are belong in special institutions. The unity of language is fundamentally political.

المثقف من حمل الحقيقة في وجه القوة ('cultured from carrying the truth in the face of power')

One can't prescribe books, even the best books, to people unless one knows a good deal about each individual person. If a man is keen on reading, I think he ought to open his mind to some older man who knows him and his life, and to take his advice in the matter, and above all, to discuss with him the first books that interest him.

But remember that the Captain belongs to the most dangerous enemy to truth and freedom, the solid unmoving catting of the majority.

I cannot deny that Vera, in her own way-in the way of all human beings who are kind and not cruel-really is lovely.

When we feel that all eyes are upon on us, it is often difficult
to take chances in expressing our individuality.

I like it when a flower or a little tuft of grass grows through a crack in the concrete. It's so fuckin' heroic.

A human being too, is many things. Whatever makes up the air,the earth, the herbs, the stones is also part of our bodies. We must learn to be different, to feel and taste the manifold things that are us.

Whoso would be a man must be a nonconformist.

The individual, man as a man, man as a brain, if you like, interests me more than what he makes, because I've noticed that most artists only repeat themselves.

We don't need more museums that try to construct the historical narratives of a society, community, team, nation, state, tribe, company, or species. We all know that the ordinary, everyday stories of individuals are riches, more humane, and much more joyful.

I feel more alive now than I did while on earth. I am coming to terms with the notion that death is truly another word for opportunity.

Not just charity, even corruption begins at home.

Check the history, more people died for freedom than love, people need freedom before they need love.

You need a team for war, not for negotiation.

It was almost painful to be different.