Christian Dior
Fashion Designer
"Individuality will always be one of the conditions of real elegance"
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Individuality
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Erich Fromm
Psychologist, Philosopher
"Respect is not fear and awe; it...[is]the ability to see a person as he is, to be aware of his unique individuality. Respect, thus, implies the absence of exploitation. I want the loved person to grow and unfold for his own sake, and in his own ways, and not for the purpose of serving me."
Charlie Chaplin
Actor, Filmmaker, Composer
"Man as an individual is a genius. But men in the mass form the headless monster, a great, brutish idiot that goes where prodded."
Aldous Huxley
Novelist, Essayist
"Writers write to influence their readers, their preachers, their auditors, but always, at bottom, to be more themselves."
Theodore Parker
Transcendentalist, Minister
"Never violate the sacredness of your individual self-respect."
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"So the old Copenhagen interpretation needs to be generalized, needs to be replaced by something that can be used for the whole universe, and can be used also in cases where there is plenty of individuality and history"
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"In a way, you are poetry material; You are full of cloudy subtleties I am willing to spend a lifetime figuring out. Words burst in your essence and you carry their dust in the pores of your ethereal individuality."
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"In our society, the ideal self is bold, gregarious, and comfortable in the spotlight. We like to think that we value individuality, but mostly we admire the type of individual who’s comfortable "putting himself out there.""
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"As an individual who undertakes to live by borrowing, soon finds his original means devoured by interest, and next no one left to borrow from - so must it be with a government."
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"Discipline must come through liberty. . . . We do not consider an individual disciplined only when he has been rendered as artificially silent as a mute and as immovable as a paralytic. He is an individual annihilated, not disciplined."
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"However gifted an individual is at the outset, if his or her talents cannot be developed because of his or her social condition, because of the surrounding circumstances, these talents will be still-born."
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"Beauty isn't about looking perfect. It's about celebrating your individuality."
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"why are trying so hard to fit in, when you're born to stand out"
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"Every single person has a life to live, a work to do, a glorious personality, a wonderful individuality."
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"Whatever crushes individuality is despotism."
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"Seeing God without seeing the Self, one sees only mental image. Only he who has seen Himself has seen God, since he has lost individuality, and now sees nothing but God."
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"In bourgeois society capital is independent and has individuality, while the living person is dependent and has no individuality."
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"Violence is a personal necessity for the oppressed...It is not a strategy consciously devised. It is the deep, instinctive expression of a human being denied individuality."
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"Our great whirling planet, our human individuality, were not given to us merely that we might exist for a time and then vanish into nothingness, but that we might question what it is all about. To live without understanding the purpose of life is foolish, a waste of time. The mystery of life surrounds us; we were given intelligence in order to solve it."
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"There is nothing about an individual as important as his IQ, except possibly his morals."
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"If I'm going to sing like someone else, then I don't need to sing at all."
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"Presenting leadership as a list of carefully defined qualities (like strategic, analytical, and performance-ori ented) no longer holds. Instead, true leadership stems from individuality that is honestly and sometimes imperfectly expressed.... Leaders should strive for authenticity over perfection."
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"America is not anything if it consists of each of us. It is something only if it consists of all of us..."
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"Be that self which one truly is."
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"No member of a crew is praised for the rugged individuality of his rowing."
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