Individual Quotes - Page 32

Masses are rude, lame, unmade, pernicious in their demands and influence, and need not to be flattered, but to be schooled. I wish not to concede anything to them, but to tame, drill, divide, and break them up, and draw individuals out of them.

Our expenses are all for conformity.

Each individual is unique in ordinary life. The uniqueness becomes even more sharp and clear, crystal clear, when the person becomes enlightened - because only then his pure genius, his pure individuality, uncontaminated, unpolluted, is revealed.

God's graciousness is not totally removed from any individual during this lifetime. In hell, it is.

Superiority and inferiority are individual, not racial or national.

The individual is the central, rarest, most precious capital resource of our society.

I am neither for conformity nor non-conformity. I am for individuality. If one's individuality is in effect non-conformity, then so be it. But basically, one's individuality consists of conformity--to one's self.

I regard individuality as the most precious trait we have, because without it there is no creativity, there is no consciousness, there is no rationality. There is nothing that could make me speak more strongly to this point.

Consciousness in the individual is that area where the totality of life is located.

Private property creates for the individual a sphere in which he is free of the state. It sets limits to the operation of the authoritarian will.

Schoolchildren make up their own rules and enforce their own conformities. They feel safest when leisure time is rationed and dosed. They like to wear uniforms, and they frown on personal idiosyncrasies. Deviance is the mark of an outsider.

Wise elders will likely be those individuals who stay both mentally and physically vital throughout life.

Over-commercialization and its resulting restrictions and limitations can be very damaging and distorting to the inherent nature of the individual. I did not deliberately abandon my fans, nor did I deliberately abandon any responsibilities.

Nationality is the aggregated individuality of the greatest men of the nation.

The goal of Scientology is making the individual capable of living a better life in his own estimation and with his fellows and the playing of a better game.

I REPRESENT THE INDIVIDUAL. I REPRESENT BEING HAPPY WITH WHO YOU ARE

Eternal life and the invisible world are only to be sought in God. Only within Him do all spirits dwell. He is an abyss of individuality, the only infinite plenitude.

Only as an individual can man become a philosopher.

The necessity of every one paying in his own labor for what he consumes, affords the only legitimate and effectual check to excessive luxury, which has so often ruined individuals, states and empires; and which has now brought almost universal bankruptcy upon us.

We need myths that will identify the individual not with his local group but with the planet.

Without privacy there was no point in being an individual.

You can respect a person without necessarily liking that individual.

The women in my family are just strong women who do their own thing, so I knew I needed to have individuals like that.

Nations have their ego, just like individuals.

The bravest of individuals is the one who obeys his or her conscience.