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The greatest enemy of individual freedom is the individual himself.
-Saul Alinsky
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We would worry less about what others think of us if we realized how seldom they do.
-Ethel Barrett
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My misfortune is doubly painful to me because it will result in my being misunderstood. For me there can be no recreation in the company of others, no intelligent conversation, no exchange of information with peers; only the most pressing needs can make me venture into society. I am obliged to live like an outcast.
-Ludwig van Beethoven
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The privilege of a lifetime is being who you are.
-Joseph Campell
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More and more, when faced with the world of men, the only reaction is one of individualism. Man alone is an end unto himself. Everything one tries to do for the common good ends in failure.
-Albert Camus
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Pin your faith to no ones sleeves, haven't you two eyes of your own.
-Thomas Carlyle
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No one should part with their individuality and become that of another.
-William Ellery Channing
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Not armies, not nations, have advanced the race; but here and there, in the course of ages, an individual has stood up and cast his shadow over the world.
-Edwin Hubbell Chapin
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There is more simplicity in the man who eats caviar on impulse than in the man who eats Grape Nuts on principle.
-G. K. Chesterton
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Nature made us individuals, as she did the flowers and the pebbles; but we are afraid to be peculiar, and so our society resembles a bag of marbles, or a string of mold candles. Why should we all dress after the same fashion? The frost never paints my windows twice alike.
-Lydia Maria Child
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Losing faith in your own singularity is the start of wisdom, I suppose; also the first announcement of death.
-Peter Conrad
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Each man must have his I; it is more necessary to him than bread; and if he does not find scope for it within the existing institutions he will be likely to make trouble.
-Charles Horton Cooley
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Individuality is the aim of political liberty. By leaving to the citizen as much freedom of action and of being, as comports with order and the rights of others, the institutions render him truly a freeman. He is left to pursue his means of happiness in his own manner.
-James Fenimore Cooper
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Individuality is either the mark of genius or the reverse. Mediocrity finds safety in standardization.
-Frederick E. Crane
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To be nobody but yourself in a world which is doing its best day and night to make you everybody else means to fight the hardest battle which any human being can fight, and never stop fighting.
-e. e. (Edward Estlin) cummings
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Follow your own star!
-Dante Alighieri
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The trouble with the sacred Individual is that he has no significance, except as he can acquire it from others, from the social whole.
-Bernard Devoto
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Everything without tells the individual that he is nothing; everything within persuades him that he is everything.
-X. Doudan
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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.
-Marcel Duchamp
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There is a war against the individual.
-James Dye
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Each makes this cosmos and its construction the pivot of his emotional life, in order to find in this way peace and security which he can not find in the narrow whirlpool of personal experience.
-Albert Einstein
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A man must consider what a rich realm he abdicates when he becomes a conformist.
-Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Do not wish to be anything but what you are, and try to be that perfectly.
-St. Francis De Sales
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Every man must get to Heaven his own way.
-Frederick the Great
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The best things and best people rise out of their separateness; I'm against a homogenized society because I want the cream to rise.
-Robert Frost
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Books about Individuality
