Individuality
"The universal does not attract us until housed in an individual." - RALPH WALDO EMERSON, The Method of Nature
"We fancy men are individuals; so are pumpkins; but every pumpkin in the field goes through every point of pumpkin history." - RALPH WALDO EMERSON, Essays
"When we lose the right to be different, we lose the privilege to be free." - CHARLES EVANS HUGHES, speech (1925)
"The strongest man in the world is he who stands most alone." - HENRIK IBSEN, An Enemy of the People
"Whatever crushes individuality is despotism, by whatever name it may be called." - JOHN STUART MILL, On Liberty
"There never were in the world two opinions alike, no more than two hairs or two grains; the most universal quality is diversity." - MICHEL DE MONTAIGNE, Essays