(1667 quotes found)
“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
“Whoever knows he is deep, strives for clarity; whoever would like to appear deep to the crowd, strives for obscurity. For the crowd considers anything deep if only it cannot see to the bottom: the crowd is so timid and afraid of going into the water.”
Friedrich Nietzsche
“Neither the life of an individual nor the history of a society can be understood without understanding both.”
C. Wright Mills
“"Style" is an expression of individualism mixed with charisma. Fashion is something that comes after style.”
John Fairchild
“To a person in love, the value of the individual is intuitively known. Love needs no logic for its mission.”
Charles Lindbergh
“You are not a beautiful and unique snowflake. You are the same decaying organic matter as everyone else, and we are all part of the same compost pile.”
Chuck Palahniuk
“What is genius but the power of expressing a new individuality?”
Elizabeth Barrett Browning
“The life-fate of the modern individual depends not only upon the family into which he was born or which he enters by marriage, but increasingly upon the corporation in which he spends the most alert hours of his best years.”
“In bourgeois society capital is independent and has individuality, while the living person is dependent and has no individuality.”
Karl Marx
“Those who talk about individuality the most are the ones who most object to deviation, and in a few years it may be the other way around. Some day everybody will just think what they want to think, and then everybody will probably be thinking alike; that”
Andy Warhol
