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No, because I don’t want to hear what’s hot and feel I have to copy it. I’ll just make up my own thing.

If a man does not keep pace with his companions, perhaps it is because he hears a different drummer. Let him step to the music which he hears, however measured or far away.

Most men are individuals no longer so far as their business, its activities, or its moralities are concerned. They are not units but fractions.

What? You seek something? You wish to multiply yourself tenfold, a hundredfold? You seek followers? Seek zeros!

Everyone should be respected as an individual, but no one idolized.

I may not be better than other people, but at least I’m different.

Man as an individual is a genius. But men in the mass form the headless monster, a great, brutish idiot that goes where prodded.

Whatever crushes individuality is despotism, by whatever name it may be called and whether it professes to be enforcing the will of God or the injunctions of men.

In order to be an immaculate member of a flock of sheep, one must above all be a sheep oneself.

Whatever I do, it’s my business. It’s not my job to parent America.