Marine Le Pen Quotes

America is a mosaic not of groups but of individuals, each of whom carries a host of cultural influences, some chosen, some inherited, some absorbed by osmosis. That mosaic is held together by the pursuit of happiness, the most powerful mortar ever conceived. Left alone, it will long endure.

It's quite comforting to me as an individualist that we're not very close to being clones of one other.

One motherland, one sanskriti (culture), common ancestry and heritage and unity in diversity. It is these three that constitute the national culture. The mode of worship can differ from person to person.

I never felt that I was supposed to be white. Or black, either. My parents just wanted to let me be who I needed to be.

Individualism is a formidable lie.

I've got the fighting Irish, and Puerto Ricans are some of the best fighters in the world. I'm proud of who I am, but it doesn't define me as a person.

Human groupings have one main purpose: to assert everyone’s right to be different, to be special, to think, feel and live in his or her own way. People join together in order to win or defend this right. But this is where a terrible, fateful error is born: the belief that these groupings in the name of a race, a God, a party or a State are the very purpose of life and not simply a means to an end. No! The only true and lasting meaning of the struggle for life lies in the individual, in his modest peculiarities and in his right to these peculiarities.

I'd rather die on my own terms than live on theirs. I'd rather die loving Alex than live without him.

I damn well intend to keep on living the way I think I should.

I'm not going to tell people how to live their life and I surely wouldn't tell people my life is the way you should be living. People get to choose what they do want to do with their life and I appreciated that.

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.

Personally, I believe in self-determination, but in the context of one South Africa - so that my self-determination is based in this region, and with my people.

I am more than proud to be European. I love Europe, I love France, but I have an American mentality, and I don't know why. The way I see things, the way I talk, I'm the kind of person who, if I want to say something, I will say it - sometimes in Europe, it's not always what you need to do.

The fact is, Latinos now own their own lives and I believe they can afford to look back without judgment.

I understand them. I understand where they came from, what their lifestyle was there. But my parents didn't push us to be like them. They said do whatever you think right, but remember the important things in life.

We feel free. We're independent. People can be openly proud of being Estonian. I have a lot of belief in Estonia.

I never let track define me. That's something that's really important to me.

A modern civilization is only possible when it is accepted that singular beings exist and express themselves freely.

Freedom is a unique concept that everyone interprets differently.

Hey, if something is making you feel good, and it's not hurting anyone else, does it really matter if others believe?

Identity in America is complicated but it's also simple: it's about whom you identify with and who identifies with you.

I started my career in parent education with the idea that we needed to let our kids go. I believed that parents were suffocating for their children. There was no room for individuality and personhood.

Allow the world to live as it chooses, and allow yourself to live as you choose.

It is not possible to conceive a democratic Guatemala, free and independent, without the indigenous identity shaping its character into all aspects of national existence.

I don't care what anyone says. It's my life, and I can do what I like.