A society that does not recognize that each individual has values of his own which he is entitled to follow can have no respect for the dignity of the individual and cannot really know freedom.
Individual - Individuality Quotes
That so few now dare to be eccentric marks the chief danger of the time.
Remember always that you have not only the right to be an individual, you have an obligation to be one. You cannot make any useful contribution in life unless you do this.
If I am not for myself, who will be for me? If I am not for others, what am I? And if not now, when?
It is only the cultivation of individuality which produces, or can produce, well-developed human beings.
I believe in individualism… up to the point where the individualist starts to operate at the expense of society.
It is thus necessary that the individual should come to realize that his own ego is of no importance in comparison with the existence of his nation; that the position of the individual ego is conditioned solely by the interests of the nation as a whole… that above all the unity of a nation’s spirit […]
Whatever crushes individuality is despotism, by whatever name it may be called.
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.
