407 Quotes About Individualism

I do not understand it that why is every member of society constantly trying to make us like him or like someone else, why are they having difficulty in accepting our individuality, why are they so afraid of the differences. I think, 'being different' is the most amazing and integral part of our beauty and an individual is someone who is not yet conditioned to act in accordance to the general plot of the story.

I want to be an individual, with my own drives, and convictions, and principles, not just a cultural unit, not just a series of superficial identity categorizations.

By riding public transportation and reading newspapers, we become like the others, sinking further and further into the they

The authority of society is imposed not arbitrarily or officially, but naturally. And it is because of this fact that its effect on the individual is incomparably much more powerful than that of the State. It creates and molds all individuals in its midst. It passes on to them, slowly, from the day of birth to death, all its material, intellectual, and moral characteristics. Society, so to speak, individualizes itself in every individual.

This is the age of the individual and there is no reason to believe that this focus of mankind is likely to change in the foreseeable future. Hence, the mission is to put individualism inside a wide context and to give it meaning and a sense of direction; to empower it – but authentically this time.

The 20th Century proved that there is nothing more dangerous to the health of ethnic minority communities than big government.

Punk is about being an individual and going against the grain and standing up and saying 'This is who I am.

Human thought and human caring go on in one brain and one heart at a time. Groups are necessary. Regulations are necessary. Government, I would hope limited government, is necessary. But it all starts with the individual. Everything that is accomplished starts with one person, even if the group steps in and helps; it’s still one brain and one heart at a time.

As the man was bundled into an armoured police van, he turned and shouted: ‘Don’t waste your life following others! Be individual! Live your dreams!’I stood there thinking. He was right. Ours is a society of followers, trapped by an island mentality.