Whatever crushes individuality is despotism, by whatever name it may be called.
Individual - Individuality Quotes
What I do object to about America is the herd thinking. There is no room for individuals in your country – and yet you are dedicated to saving the world for individualism.
When we leave people on their own, we are delivering them into the hands of a ruthless taskmaster from whose bondage there is no escape. The individual who has to justify his existence by his own efforts is in eternal bondage to himself.
There is a limit to the legitimate interference of collective opinion with individual independence: and to find that limit, and maintain it against encroachment, is as indispensable to a good condition of human affairs, as protection against political despotism.
Fond as we are of our loved ones, there comes at times during their absence an unexplained peace.
Where much is expected from an individual, he may rise to the level of events and make the dream come true.
If it were felt that the free development of individuality is one of the leading essentials of well-being; that it is not a coordinate element with all that is designated by the terms civilization, instruction, education, culture, but is itself a necessary part and condition of all those things; there would be no danger that […]
I like a view but I sit with my back turned to it.
It is a blessed thing that in every age someone has had the individuality enough and courage enough to stand by his own convictions.
Eccentricity has always abounded when and where strength of character has abounded; and the amount of eccentricity in a society has generally been proportional to the amount of genius, mental vigor, and moral courage it contained. That so few dare to be eccentric marks the chief danger of the time.
