Individuality Loss Quotes

Ball points belong to their age. They make everyone write alike.

To grow old is to grow common. Old age equalizes -- we are aware that what is happening to us has happened to untold numbers from the beginning of time. When we are young we act as if we were the first young people in the world.

The first effect of adjusting to other people is that one becomes boring.

I doubt that the imagination can be suppressed. If you truly eradicated it in a child, he would grow up to be an eggplant.

There's no better way to dismantle a personality than to isolate it.

Society is one vast conspiracy for carving one into the kind of statue likes, and then placing it in the most convenient niche it has.

We were creating a world where the smartest way to survive is to be bland.

In short, whoever you may be, To this conclusion you'll agree, When every one is somebodee, Then no one's anybody!

Strictly speaking, the mass, as a psychological fact, can be defined without waiting for individuals to appear in mass formation. In the presence of one individual we can decide whether he is "mass" or not. The mass is all that which sets no value on itself good or ill based on specific grounds, but which feels itself "just like everybody," and nevertheless is not concerned about it; is, in fact, quite happy to feel itself as one with everybody else.

One boy's a boy, two boys are half a boy; three boys are no boy at all.

The only distinction that democracies reward is a high degree of conformity.

all outcast peoples struggle to be recognized as individuals. The damage of oppression is that it robs you of your individuality. You're just a faggot. Or whatever - fill in the blank. Everything you do is seen through the prism of your gayness or your womanness or your blackness by some people.

Who would wish to be among the commonplace crowd of the little famous - who are each individually lost in a throng made up of themselves?

To depersonalize man is the dominant drift of our times.

Utopianism also attempts to shape and dominate the individual by doing two things at once: it strips the individual of his uniqueness, making him indistinguishable from the multitudes that form what is commonly referred to as 'the masses,' but it simultaneously assigns him a group identity based on race, ethnicity, age, gender, income, etc., to highlight differences within the masses.

To fall into a habit is to begin to cease to be.

A 'modern' man has nothing to add to modernism, if only because he has nothing to oppose it with. The well-adapted drop off the dead limb of time like lice.

The purest evil that human efforts could attain, in other words, was probably achieved by those men who made their wills the same and who made their eyes see the world in the same way, men who went against the pattern of life's diversity, men whose spirits shattered the natural wall of the individual body, making nothing of this barrier, set up to guard against mutual corrosion, men whose spirit accomplished what flesh could never accomplish.

Americans are getting like a Ford car, they all have the same exact parts, the same upholstering and make exactly the same noises.

While children are struggling to be unique, the world around them is trying all means to make them look like everybody else.

Every uniform corrupts one's character.

The image-managers encourage the individual to fashion himself into a smooth coin, negotiable in any market.

Who is there today who still cares about a well-finished death? No one. Even the rich, who could after all afford this luxury, are beginning to grow lazy and indifferent; the desire to have a death of one's own is becoming more and more rare. In a short time it will be as rare as a life of one's own.

I do everything that everybody else does.

On the principle laid down by Gilbert and Sullivan that when everybody is somebody, nobody is anybody; if everybody is abnormal, we don't need to worry about anybody.