“The whole concept of an individual who exists apart from group identity is slipping from the discourse.”— Andrew Sullivan, nymag.com
“What each of us must come to realize is that our intent always comes through.”— Thurgood Marshall, thurgoodmarshall.com
“No individual has any right to come into the world and go out of it without leaving behind him distinct and legitimate reasons for having passed through it.”— George Washinton Carver, goodreads.com
“Uh, we try to point out to each other, when we're thinking from the ‘cult mind, hive mind,’ as we call it, because that mind tells us our private thoughts can hurt. But the truth is, Eddie, we're entitled to our own thoughts.”— Justin Doble, Reggie, Stephen Conrad Moore, imdb.com
“Why does everything have to be 'us'? Is there no 'me' left? Why can't there be some things just for me? Is that so selfish?”— Alec Berg, Jeff Schaffer, George Costanza, Jason Alexander, imdb.com
“I can never consent to being dictated to as to what I shall or shall not do. I, as President, shall be responsible for my administration. I hope to have your hearty co-operation in carrying out its measures. So long as you see fit to do this, I shall be glad to have you with me. When you think other…”— John Tyler, en.wikiquote.org
“When the snows fall and the white winds blow, the lone wolf dies, but the pack survives.”— George R. R. Martin, Eddard Stark, amazon.com
“You can create in the prisoners feelings of boredom, a sense of fear to some degree, you can create a notion of arbitrariness that their life is totally controlled by us, by the system, you, me, and they'll have no privacy... We're going to take away their individuality in various ways. In general w…”— Philip Zimbardo, en.wikipedia.org
“She is oxygen, carbon, hydrogen, nitrogen, calcium, and phosphorus. The same elements that are inside the rest of us, but I can’t help thinking she’s more than that and she’s got other elements going on that no one’s ever heard of, ones that make her stand apart from everybody else.”— Jennifer Niven, amazon.com
“We must all begin to question the experts. They have not really been right. No abundance of material goods can compensate for the death of individuality and personal creativity.”— Coretta Scott King, en.wikiquote.org
“If you only do what others have already done, you will only feel what others have already felt. However, if you choose to achieve something that no one has ever done, then you will have a satisfaction that no one else has ever had.”— Edmund Hillary, goodreads.com
“All of us take pride and pleasure in the fact that we are unique, but I'm afraid that when all is said and done the police are right: it all comes down to fingerprints.”— David Sedaris, amazon.com
“The real offence, as she ultimately perceived, was her having a mind of her own at all. Her mind was to be his — attached to his own like a small garden-plot to a deer-park.”— Henry James, amazon.com
“Racism is simply an ugly form of collectivism, the mindset that views humans only as members of groups and never as individuals. Racists believe that all individuals who share superficial physical characteristics are alike; as collectivists, racists think only in terms of groups. By encouraging Amer…”— Ron Paul, lewrockwell.com
“So all were gone at last, one by one, each swept out into the mighty flood tide of the city's life, there to prove, to test, to find, to lose himself, as each man must--alone.”— Thomas Wolfe, amazon.com
“Our inability to see things that are right before our eyes, until they are pointed out to us, would be amusing if it were not at times so serious. We are coming, I think, to depend too much on being told and shown and taught, instead of using our own eyes and brains and inventive faculties, which ar…”— Laura Ingalls Wilder, amazon.com