Dorothy L. Sayers Quotes

I believe that man is in the last resort so free a being that his right to be what he believes himself to be cannot be contested.

Instead of boiling up individuals into the species, I would draw a chalk circle round every individuality, and preach to it to keep within that, and preserve and cultivate its identity.

I leave you free to be yourself: to think your thoughts, indulge your tastes, follow your inclinations, behave in ways that you decide are to your liking.

This is my life; these are my fingerprints; I'm unique; this is what I want to do. You worry about your own front porch and what's happening in your own world.

Those who fear that we are losing our individualism couldn't be more wrong: Americans have never been more free to create and recreate themselves.

Everybody has the right to be who they choose to be.

I believe everybody got the right to live their own life the way they want to.

People have certain ideas of what they think you should be, and I have fought that categorisation my whole life.

I'm my own person. You can't generalise about people.

I just like showing people - and this might be at the root of everything that I've done - that I don't want to be looked at as a baseball robot.

I feel like how I live my life is my own political statement.

Personality is the supreme realization of the innate idiosyncracy of a living being. It is an act of high courage flung in the face of life, the absolute affirmation of all that constitutes the individual, the most successful adaptation to the universal conditions of existence coupled with the greatest possible freedom for self-determination.

There are no limits to what you can create for you, because your ability to think is unlimited! But you cannot create other people's lives for them. You cannot think for them, and if you try to force your opinions on others you will only attract like forces to you. So let all others create the life they want.

I'm not everyone's cup of tea, but that's the great part: I don't have to be.

But little do or can the best of us: That little is achieved through Liberty.

I don't think my position unusual for a woman. I'm following a perfectly natural urge to do what I like.

You know, you always want to just do your own thing - I mean some people want to be exactly like their parents - Ibut I wanted to do my own thing and I ended up doing a kind of mix of my mom and dad.

To give up your individuality is to annihilate yourself.

Don't let anyone tell you what you ought to like.

I'm going to do whatever I want as long as it's country. I mean, I'm not much on naysayers, so I'll just do whatever. If I like it, I'll do it.

You will do things in private and sing in private and make choices in private that you wouldn't make if you were observed.

Stand up for yourself and fight for your right to be the artist that you want to be. There's plenty of pressure from outside; people tell you how to dress and how to sing or what to sing, but I always felt like if I'm going to fail or succeed, I want to do it on my own terms.

We should give people the freedom to express who they are.

We're all individuals. Lee Raymond is Lee Raymond. He has his style. I am Rex Tillerson, and I have my style.

Nobody owes anything to anybody. You are your authentic self to whom and when you choose to be, and if you don't know somebody, then why would you explain to them how you live your life?