The most loving parents and relatives commit murder with smiles on their faces. They force us to destroy the person we really are: a subtle kind of murder.
Jim MorrisonTag: individuality progress freedom parents murder self evolution self-awareness potential conditioning jim-morrison evolving
The present representative of the Dedlocks is an excellent master. He supposes all his dependents to be utterly bereft of individual characters, intentions, or opinions, and is persuaded that he was born to supersede the necessity of their having any. If he were to make a discovery to the contrary, he would be simply stunned — would never recover himself, most likely, except to gasp and die.
Charles DickensTag: individuality tyranny independence leadership domination submission suppression
There were those who loved liberty, who cried out to live their own lives, to strive, to rise above, to achieve, and those bent on the mindless equality of stagnation brought about through the enforcement of an artificial, arbitrary, gray uniformity--those who wanted to transcend through their own effort, and those who wanted others to think for them and were willing to pay the ultimate price.
Terry GoodkindTag: individuality liberty freedom society effort uniformity
I think that is the very definition of a family: a group of individuals, bound by the essence of love, who share a life together and yet maintain their unique individuality.
Kathy MagliatoTag: individuality love family unique
Every revolution was first a thought in one man's mind, and when the same thought occurs to another man, it is the key to that era.
Ralph Waldo EmersonTag: individuality change courage-to-be-oneself
Emphasizing the crowd means de-emphasizing individual humans in the design of society, and when you ask people not to be people, they revert to bad, mob-like behaviors.
Jaron LanierTag: individuality technology computers internet mob crowd
The liberty of the individual is no gift of civilization. It was greatest before there was any civilization.
Sigmund FreudTag: individuality liberty civilization
His thoughts inhabit a different plane from those of ordinary men; the simplest interpretation of that is to call him crazy.
Juliet MarillierTag: humor individuality craziness differences
We are flawed creatures, all of us. Some of us think that means we should fix our flaws. But get rid of my flaws and there would be no one left.
Sarah VowellTag: individuality inspirational flaws
I don't believe in fashion. I believe in costume. Life is too short to be same person every day.
Stephanie PerkinsTag: individuality fashion self-expression
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