Does anyone know any great quotes about individuality?

Question

Also does anyone know this quote
" Go for peace but prepare for war"
Its not exactly how the quote is said or who its by if anyone knows please let me know.

Answer 1

"Individuality is either the mark of genius or the reverse. Mediocrity finds safety in standardization."
--Frederick E. Crane

Answer 2

Archibald Macleish:
The dissenter is every human being at those moments of his life when he resigns momentarily from the herd and thinks for himself
Bette Midler:
Cherish forever what makes you unique, ‘cuz you're really a yawn if it goes.
Buddha:
Work out your own salvation. Do not depend on others.
Oscar Wilde
“My great mistake, the fault for which I can't forgive myself, is that one day I ceased my obstinate pursuit of my own individuality.”
"Men often applaud an imitation and hiss the real thing."
--Aesop
"Originality is unexplored territory. You get there by carrying a canoe -- you can't take a taxi."
--Alan Alda
"In social institutions, the whole is always less than the sum of its parts. There will never be a state as good as its people, or a church worthy of its congregation, or a university equal to its faculty and students. "
--Edward Abbey
"No bird has ever uttered note That was not in some first bird's throat; Since Eden's freshness and man's fall No rose has been original. "
-- Thomas Bailey Aldrich
"Men acquire a particular quality by constantly acting in a particular way. "
-- Aristotle
"Resolve to be thyself; and know that he who finds himself loses his misery."
- Matthew Arnold
"Originality is the essence of true scholarship. Creativity is the soul of the true scholar. "
--Nnamdi Azikiwe
"How we remember, what we remember, and why we remember form the most personal map of our individuality."
-- Christina Baldwin
"One cup poured into another makes different waters; tears shed by one eye would blind if wept into another's eye. The breast we strike in joy is not the breast we strike in pain; any man's smile would be consternation on another's mouth. "
-- Djuna Barnes
Be daring, be different, be impractical, be anything that will assert integrity of purpose and imaginative vision against the play-it-safers, the creatures of the commonplace, the slaves of the ordinary."
--Sir Cecil Beaton
"About the most originality that any writer can hope to achieve honestly is to steal with good judgment."
--Josh Billings
"A child develops individuality long before he discovers taste. "
-- Erma Bombeck
"Every man's work, whether it be literature or music or pictures or architecture or anything else, is always a portrait of himself. "
--Samuel Butler
"Originality is a thing we constantly clamour for, and constantly quarrel with."
--Thomas Carlyle
"The merit of originality is not novelty; it is sincerity. The believing man is the original man; whatsoever he believes, he believes it for himself, not for another."
--Thomas Carlyle
"The boughs of no two trees ever have the same arrangement. Nature always produces individuals; she never produces classes. "
-- Lydia Maria Child
"Trust yourself. Think for yourself. Act for yourself. Speak for yourself. Be yourself. Imitation is suicide."

"Individuality is the aim of political liberty. "
-- James Fenimore Cooper
"Individuality is either the mark of genius or the reverse. Mediocrity finds safety in standardization. "
-- Frederick E. Crane

"Americans are the only people in the world known to me whose status anxiety prompts them to advertise their college and university affiliations in the rear window of their automobiles. "
--Paul Fussell
"We tend to see our own experiences as the normal process, so we are often amazed that anyone could have taken a different path. But when we do meet up, it's always fascinating to compare notes about the different ways to get there."
--Daniel Gilly
"All profoundly original work looks ugly at first. "
-- Clement Greenberg
"Originality exists in every individual because each of us differs from the others. We are all primary numbers divisible only by ourselves."
--Jean Guitton
"The thing that makes you exceptional, if you are at all, is inevitably that which must also make you lonely. "
-- Lorainne Hansberry
"There are no original ideas. There are only original people."
--Barbara Grizzuli Harrison
"In exploring new and doubtful tracts of speculation, the mind strikes out true and original views; as a drop of water hesitates at first what direction it will take, but afterwards follows its own course."
--William Hazlitt
"Don't worry about your originality. You couldn't get rid of it even if you wanted to. It will stick with you and show up for better or worse in spite of all you or anyone else can do."
--Robert Henri
"Originality is simply a pair of fresh eyes."
--Thomas W. Higginson
"The original insight is most likely to come when elements stored in different compartments of the mind drift into the open, jostle one another, and now and then form new combinations."
--Eric Hoffer
"When people are fee to do as they please, they usually imitate each other. Originality is deliberate and forced, and partakes of the nature of a protest. "
-- Eric Hoffer

Answer 3

"You are an individual just like everyone else" Anonymous

Answer 4

"Speak up for yourself, because you are the only one who can."