Individuality Quotes

“History. Language. Passion. Custom. All these things determine what men say, think, and do. These are the hidden puppet-strings from which all men hang.”
― R. Scott Bakker, The Darkness That Comes Before

“Some people like living in black and white worlds. Let them stay there. Appreciate all the colors you see in your world though.”
― Ashly Lorenzana

“One thing I've learned in life is that I can speak for myself, that I can fight my own battles. I don't like anyone telling me how I'm supposed to feel or think or what I'm supposed to say.”
― Hope Solo

“If you're "one in a million", and the world is full of seven billion people, that means there are seven thousand people just like you.”
― Jeff Goins

“I am not a number; I am a free man.”
― Patrick McGoohan

“Not at all. It's why people come. They say it's about looking smart, or beautiful, or professional, but it's not. Gray-haired ladies try to recapture their former brunette. Brunettes want to go blond. Other women go for colors that don't arise in
nature. Each group thinks it's completely different than the others, but I don't see it that way. I've watched them looking at themselves in the mirror, and they're not interested in conforming or rebelling, they just want to walk out of here feeling like themselves again.”
― Antony John, Five Flavors of Dumb

“People who are different are beautiful. Those who follow society are boring.”
― Gina Adel

“When I say "I," I mean a thing absolutely unique, not to be confused with any other.”
― Lola-Butterflie

“Typography fostered the modern idea of individuality, but it destroyed the medieval sense of community and integration”
― Neil Postman, Amusing Ourselves to Death: Public Discourse in the Age of Show Business

“At our present bad moment, we need above all to recover our sense of literary individuality and of poetic autonomy.”
― Harold Bloom, The Western Canon: The Books and School of the Ages

“People need to learn how to take the role of leader out of God's hands.”
― Lionel Suggs

“The author challenges how much sanctity has to do with sameness, as he says saints are as different from each other as those in any group -- even murderers.”
― G.K. Chesterton, Saint Thomas Aquinas