'Rugged individualism' has meant all the 'individualism' for the masters, while the people are regimented into a slave caste to serve a… — Emma Goldman Copy Share Image
[As] authorities "over" us are removed, as we wobble out on our own, the question of whether to be or not to… — William H. Gass Copy Share Image
There is one further distinguishing characteristic of man which is very specific indeed and about which there can be no dispute, and… — Jean-Jacques Rousseau Copy Share Image
What I'm really focused on is connecting people around shared interests, so together they can make good stuff happen. I'm more focused… — Pierre Omidyar Copy Share Image
Production of identity is a resistance element, an aggressive element. Both a refusal and an affirmation and an assertion, and certainly, we… — Mark McMorris Copy Share Image
I'm a husband and a dad. Two thirds of my day is spent being that character. It's a huge part of my… — Ben Sollee Copy Share Image
Our people are willing to work with the government on new technologies. Now, it's a habit; every Estonian looks at it as… — Kersti Kaljulaid Copy Share Image
I think that what's happening today, with all the young poets rushing from one college to another, lecturing at the drop of… — Conrad Aiken Copy Share Image
“We have the tools and technologies in our hands with which we can make this world a paradise, or turn it into… — Sadhguru Copy Share Image
“When my identity is tied to circumstances I become extremely insecure because circumstances are unpredictable and ever-changing... We must tie our identities… — Lisa TerKeurst Copy Share Image
“A man who sets out to make himself up is taking on the Creator's role, according to one way of seeing things;… — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
I turned what was a wonderful case of self-reliance into a case of self-exile. Which is not uncommon, I think, in people… — Leigh Newman Copy Share Image
“At the beginning of our life, we may feel bare and helpless and gradually adorn ourselves with the most fanciful trappings, trying… — Erik Pevernagie Copy Share Image
So many people that we met had some sort of connection to the [Olympics] games. Some story about how they volunteered there,… — Gary Hustwit Copy Share Image
I know people want me to sort of defend myself, to sit here and be like, 'I'm a boy, but I wear… — Andrej Pejic Copy Share Image
“Persons like you say, ‘I’m an individual, therefore I oppose any power over me.’ That right there does not follow. How about… — Robert Peate Copy Share Image
There is a business built around racial grievance. And that business is booming at such a level that white people are like… — Jason Whitlock Copy Share Image
I believe that many people have forgotten what their roots are. This is one of the advantages of countries with a monarchy.… — Margrethe II of Denmark Copy Share Image
Self is ingenious, crooked, and, governed by subtle and snaky desire, admits of endless turnings and qualifications, and the deluded worshippers of… — James Allen Copy Share Image
Define yourself radically as one beloved by God. This is the true self. Every other identity is illusion. God's love for you… — Brennan Manning Copy Share Image
“Self-actualization is not a sudden happening or even the permanent result of long effort. The eleventh-century Tibetan Buddhist poet-saint Milarupa suggested: "Do… — David Richo Copy Share Image
We are all individuals. I can't eat for you and you can't eat for me. I can't sleep for you and you… — Prem Rawat Copy Share Image
“On what foundation is the world remaining in existence? It is on the foundation of agnan (ignorance of the Self). Are the… — Dada Bhagwan Copy Share Image
“The experiencing self does not have a voice. The remembering self is sometimes wrong, but it is the one that keeps score… — Daniel Kahneman Copy Share Image
“I haven’t been disingenuous in what I’ve said describing my perception of “truth” and “reality.” Certainly, I understand what is generally meant… — Phoebe Gloeckner Copy Share Image
I am not a communist first and an individualist second. I am an individualist first, and I don't mean this in the… — Murray Bookchin Copy Share Image
If you try to view yourself through the lenses that others offer you, all you will see are distortions; your own light… — John O'Donohue Copy Share Image
I think the next 50 years are going to present the human race with challenges that so far exceed the limitations of… — Zachary Quinto Copy Share Image
The anything-goes passiveness of the religious and political Left is matched by the preachy moralism of the religious and political Right. The… — Brennan Manning Copy Share Image
“I don’t know who I am. And I don’t think people ever will know who they are. We have to be humble… — Paulo Coehlo Copy Share Image
“Our stereotyping societies force us to feel more alone. They stamp masks on us and isolate out real selves. We all live… — John Fowles Copy Share Image
Just because I had a good game doesn't change who I am, my identity is in Christ and not in basketball, I… — Jeremy Lin Copy Share Image
“confined by a my-life-sucks attitude. If we always see our present circumstances as our definitive frame of reference, we’re in trouble. Our… — Ramon Presson Copy Share Image
“Who is considered as not living in the sansar (worldly life)? The one who does not have the upayog (applied awareness) of… — Dada Bhagwan Copy Share Image
Mergers are like marriages. They are the bringing together of two individuals. If you wouldn't marry someone for the 'operational efficiencies' they… — Simon Sinek Copy Share Image
“Patriarchy, hierarchy, and capitalism create, encourage, maintain, and perpetuate addiction and dependency. Patriarchy and hierarchy are based on domination and subordination, which… — Trista Hendren Copy Share Image
“Beyond thought I reach a state. I refuse to divide it up into words - and what I cannot and do not… — Clarice Lispector Copy Share Image
So closely interwoven have been our lives, our purposes, and experiences that, separated, we have a feeling of incompletenessunited, such strength of… — Elizabeth Cady Stanton Copy Share Image
“Whoever infringes upon individual 'charity,'" I began, "infringes upon man's nature and scorns his personal dignity. But the organizing of 'social charity'… — Fyodor Dostoyevsky Copy Share Image
“In this little room full of people he was suffering the pangs of men whose egos lose their virginity—as happens when they… — Tom Wolfe Copy Share Image