Tag Archive for: individuality

"You can never really understand an individual unless you also understand the society, historical time period in which they live, personal troubles, and social issues."

Charles Wright Mills

"I'm not going to let other people set my limitations."

Kevin Sorbo

"Become who you are. Make what only you can make."

Friedrich Nietzsche

"Because I didn't need it. Why should I get the vaccine? I'm healthy, I'm an athlete. I had corona. I had immunity. I wasn't a threat to anyone. There was no reason for me to get vaccinated. It's my freedom to choose, that fundamental right that you have as a human being on this planet — the freedom to choose — which was taken from a lot of people."

Novak Djokovic

"Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it is time to pause and reflect."

Mark Twain

"You can make your own son or daughter one of a kind if you have the time and will to do so; school can only make them part of a hive, herd or anthill."

John Taylor Gatto

"A Libertarian society of unfettered individualism spreads its benefits to virtually everyone - not just those who have the resources to seize political power."

Harry Browne

"People can play many roles and be subjectively convinced that each one is their true self. In reality, however, they play each role based on their own ideas of what those around them expect of them. And for many people—if not most—the true personality is completely overshadowed by the false one."

Erich Fromm

"You're only given a little spark of madness. You mustn't lose it."

Robin Williams

"I can't give you a sure-fire formula for success, but I can give you a formula for failure: try to please everybody all the time."

Herbert Bayard Swope

"Your time is limited, so don't waste it living someone else's life. Don't be trapped by dogma - which is living with the results of other people's thinking. Don't let the noise of other's opinions drown out your own inner voice. And most important, have the courage to follow your heart and intuition. They somehow already know what you truly want to become. Everything else is secondary."

Steve Jobs

"Innovation distinguishes between a leader and a follower."

Steve Jobs

"There is only one success - to be able to spend your life in your own way."

Christopher Morley

"The true purpose of man, not that which is dictated by changing inclinations, but that which is dictated by eternal and unchanging reason, is the highest and most proportionate development of his powers into a whole. Freedom is the first and indispensable condition for this development. (...) It is precisely the diversity that arises from the union of many that is the highest good that society offers, and this diversity is certainly always lost to the extent that the state interferes. It is no longer actually the members of a nation who live together in community, but individual subjects who enter into a relationship with the state, i.e., with the spirit that prevails in its government, and indeed into a relationship in which the superior power of the state already inhibits the free play of forces. Uniform causes have uniform effects. The more the state intervenes, the more similar not only everything that acts becomes, but also everything that is acted upon. (...) But anyone who reasons in this way for others is, not without reason, suspected of misunderstanding humanity and wanting to turn people into machines."

Alexander von Humboldt

"Most people are other people. Their thoughts are someone else's opinions, their lives a mimicry, their passions a quotation."

Oscar Wilde

"We must not forget how serious an infringement on fundamental rights a vaccination mandate would be. It does not only interfere with bodily integrity, but also affects an individual’s dignity if vaccination is carried out against their will. Given the significant uncertainty that still exists, I clearly believe that the individual’s interest in freedom outweighs everything else. In this situation, there must be no coercion to get vaccinated."

Prof. Dr. Dr. Frauke Meta Rostalski

"Everyone has the right to make his own decisions, but none has the right to force his decision on others."

Ayn Rand

"When all think alike, then no one is thinking."

Walter Lippmann