205 quotes found
“The political problem of mankind is to combine three things: economic efficiency, social justice and individual liberty.”
“History. Language. Passion. Custom. All these things determine what men say, think, and do. These are the hidden puppet-strings from which all men hang.”
“When I say "I," I mean a thing absolutely unique, not to be confused with any other.”
“People need to learn how to take the role of leader out of God's hands.”
“The author challenges how much sanctity has to do with sameness, as he says saints are as different from each other as those in any group -- even murderers.”
“Equality implies individuality.”
“An institution is the lengthened shadow of one man.”
“Every individual has a place to fill in the world and is important in some respect whether he chooses to be so or not.”
“The worth of a state in the long run is the worth of the individuals composing it.”
“It kills me how these days everyone has clinical justification for their strangeness.”
“I too am not a bit tamed, I too am untranslatable, I sound my barbaric yawp over the roofs of the world.”
“At present nothing is possible except to extend the area of sanity little by little. We cannot act collectively. We can only spread our knowledge outwards from individual to individual, generation ...”
“Remember you are just an extra in everyone else’s play.”
“I’d love to step off this well-trodden straight and boring path. To somehow live differently, think different thoughts, feel different feelings than others. It wouldn’t bother me to be as alone as ...”
“From childhood's hour I have not beenAs others were - I have not seenAs others saw - I could not bringMy passions from a common spring -”
“Who are you?'I didn't understand the question.I'm Uri', he said. 'What's your name?'I gave him my name. 'Stopthief.”
“An individual, a thing apart from its environment, and apart from all things in that environment; an individual was a type of thing for which symbols were inadequate, and so names were invented . I...”
“Is it really so terrible being around us?"I blushed. "No," I said. "But . . . it's complicated. I've been taught certain things my entire life. Those are hard to shake.""The greatest changes in his...”
“Politics is an endless, borderless war against individual liberty.”
“How come you're so different, I asked once, as we sat in the shade of the pine tree. Yukiko's answer, a sentence learned by heart: Because I fell from a star.”
