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“I was not born to be forced. I will breathe after my own fashion. Let us see who is the strongest.” Henry David Thoreau, Civil Disobedience
“The really valuable thing in the pageant of human life seems to me not the State but the creative, sentient individual, the personality; it alone creates the noble and the sublime, while the herd as such remains dull in thought and dull in feeling.” Albert Einstein, The world as I see it
“Insanity in individuals is something rare—but in groups, parties, nations, and epochs it is the rule.” Friedrich Nietzsche, Beyond Good and Evil
“Either you think—or else others have to think for you and take power from you, pervert and discipline your natural tastes, civilize and sterilize you.” F. Scott Fitzgerald, Tender Is the Night
“Responsibility does not only lie with the leaders of our countries or with those who have been appointed or elected to do a particular job. It lies with each one of us individually.” 14th Dalai Lama, Nobel Lecture
“To place nothing—nothing—above the verdict of my own mind.” Ayn Rand, Atlas Shrugged
“If a man does not keep pace with his companions, perhaps it is because he hears a different drummer. Let him step to the music which he hears, however measured or far away.” Henry David Thoreau, Walden
“I swear by my life and my love of it that I will never live for the sake of another man, nor ask another man to live for mine.” Ayn Rand, Atlas Shrugged
“The aim of life is self-development.” Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray
“I am what I am: an individual, unique and different, with a lineal history of ancestral promptings and urgings; a history of dreams, desires, and of special experiences, of all of which I am the sum total.” Charlie Chaplin, My Autobiography
“Other people are quite dreadful. The only possible society is oneself.” Oscar Wilde, An Ideal Husband
“No civilization without social stability. No social stability without individual stability.” Aldous Huxley, Brave New World
“And this I believe: that the free, exploring mind of the individual human is the most valuable thing in the world. And this I would fight for: the freedom of the mind to take any direction it wishes, undirected. And this I must fight against: any...” John Steinbeck, East of Eden
“You are so busy being you that you have no idea how utterly unprecedented you are.” John Green, The Fault in Our Stars
“Individuality is founded in feeling; and the recesses of feeling, the darker, blinder strata of character, are the only places in the world in which we catch real fact in the making, and directly perceive how events happen, and how work is...” William James, The Varieties of Religious Experience
“Two roads diverged in a wood, and I— I took the one less travelled by, And that has made all the difference.” Robert Frost, The Road Not Taken
“Every path but your own is the path of fate. Keep on your own track, then.” Henry David Thoreau, Walden
“For there is no art where there is no style, and no style where there is no unity, and unity is of the individual.” Oscar Wilde, Intentions
“Everyone’s in their own personal coma.” Chuck Palahniuk, Diary
“To say 'I love you’ one must know first how to say the ’I.’” Ayn Rand, The Fountainhead
“There are individual men and women, and there are families” Margaret Thatcher, The Downing Street Years
“Social religion is perfected when private religion is purified.” A. W. Tozer, The Pursuit of God
“Only by the reflex of other lives can he ripen his specialty, develop the idea of himself, the individuality that distinguishes him from every other.” George MacDonald, Lilith

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