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More and more, when faced with the world of men, the only reaction is one of individualism. Man alone is an end unto himself. Everything one tries to do for the common good ends in failure. (Elliott Sam)
No one should part with their individuality and become that of another. (Elliott Sam)
Losing faith in your own singularity is the start of wisdom, I suppose; also the first announcement of death. (Elliott Sam)
Each man must have his I; it is more necessary to him than bread; and if he does not find scope for it within the existing institutions he will be likely to make trouble. (Elliott Sam)
Individuality is the aim of political liberty. By leaving to the citizen as much freedom of action and of being, as comports with order and the rights of others, the institutions render him truly a freeman. He is left to pursue his means of happiness in his own manner. (Elliott Sam)
Individuality is either the mark of genius or the reverse. Mediocrity finds safety in standardization. (Elliott Sam)
Follow your own star! (Elliott Sam)
The trouble with the sacred Individual is that he has no significance, except as he can acquire it from others, from the social whole. (Elliott Sam)
Everything without tells the individual that he is nothing; everything within persuades him that he is everything. (Elliott Sam)
Each makes this cosmos and its construction the pivot of his emotional life, in order to find in this way peace and security which he can not find in the narrow whirlpool of personal experience. (Elliott Sam)
Our expenses are all for conformity. (Elliott Sam)
A man must consider what a rich realm he abdicates when he becomes a conformist. (Elliott Sam)
Do not wish to be anything but what you are, and try to be that perfectly. (Elliott Sam)
Every man must get to Heaven his own way. (Elliott Sam)
Be yourself, who else is better qualified? (Elliott Sam)
In each individual the spirit is made flesh, in each one the whole of creation suffers, in each one a Savior is crucified. (Elliott Sam)
If I am not for myself, who will be for me? If I am not for others, what am I? And if not now, when? (Elliott Sam)
The great challenge which faces us is to assure that, in our society of big-ness, we do not strangle the voice of creativity, that the rules of the game do not come to overshadow its purpose, that the grand orchestration of society leaves ample room for the man who marches to the music of another drummer. (Elliott Sam)
Writers write to influence their readers, their preachers, their auditors, but always, at bottom, to be more themselves. (Elliott Sam)
The shoe that fits one person pinches another; there is no recipe for living that suits all cases. (Elliott Sam)
Resistance to the organized mass can be effected only by the man who is as well organized in his individuality as the mass itself. (Elliott Sam)
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