(1667 quotes found)
“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
“Laws made by common consent must not be trampled on by individuals”
George Washington
“It is more noble to give yourself completely to one individual than to labor diligently for the salvation of the masses.”
Dag Hammarskjold
“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
“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
“We all know we are unique individuals, but we tend to see others as representatives of groups.”
Deborah Tannen
“What is genius but the power of expressing a new individuality?”
Elizabeth Barrett Browning
“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
“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.”
C. Wright Mills
“Had I to carve an inscription on my tombstone I would ask for none other than "The Individual”
Soren Kierkegaard
