(1667 quotes found)
“A child develops individuality long before he discovers taste”
Erma Bombeck
“To have one's individuality completely ignored is like being pushed quite out of life--like being blown out as one blows out a light.”
Evelyn Scott
“The individual never asserts himself more than when he forgets himself”
Andre Gide
“Any revolution has to start with the transformation of the individual, otherwise individuals are corrupted by the power they get if their revolution succeeds.”
Wes Nisker
“All greatness of character is dependent on individuality. The man who has no other existence than that which he partakes in common with all around him, will never have any other than an existence of mediocrity.”
James F. Cooper
“It is a well-known fact that although the public is fine when taken individually, when it forms itself into large groups, it tends to act as though it has one partially consumed Pez tablet for a brain.”
Dave Barry
“The privacy and dignity of our citizens [are] being whittled away by sometimes imperceptible steps. Taken individually, each step may be of little consequence. But when viewed as a whole, there begins to emerge a society quite unlike any we have seen -- a society in which government may intrude into the secret regions of a [person's] life.”
William Orville Douglas
“I'm not the kind of person who tries to be cool or trendy, I'm definitely an individual.”
Leonardo DiCaprio
“The State is to make what is useful. The individual is to make what is beautiful.”
Oscar Wilde
“A person cannot approach the divine by reaching beyond the human. To become human, is what this individual person, has been created for.”
Martin Buber