Robert W. Service Quotes

I think a lot of people have lost respect for the individual, you know, the individual, the person who doesn't conform.

I am different than some people would like me to be. I just don't buy into that the personal can be political.

Society has now fairly got the better of individuality; and the danger which threatens human nature is not the excess, but the deficiency, of personal impulses and preferences.

Life is a difficult game. You can win it only by retaining your birthright to be a person. And to retain this right, you will have to be willing to take the social or external risks involved in ignoring pressures to do things the way others say they should be done

In an over-organized society, the individual is altogether crushed out of existence. He gains the whole wealth of social thought around him and loses his own soul.

I want it to resonate: there's no rule for how to live your life. You can do things your own way.

To be an individual is the hardest thing in the world, because nobody likes you to be an individual. Everybody wants to kill your individuality and to make a sheep out of you. Nobody wants you to be on your own.

Society, to be sure, does not like this very well; it saith, Whoso goes to walk alone, accuses the whole world; he declares all to be unfit to be his companions; it is very uncivil, nay, insulting; Society will retaliate.

Her own contempt for any forms of pressure society might put on her was so profound and instinctive that she as instinctively despised anyone who paid tribute to them.

I have no regrets. I wouldn't have lived my life the way I did if I was going to worry about what people were going to say.

I was kind of raised with the suggestion that I had a duty to do; that life was real, life was earnest. And I hated that, actually. I needed to be liberated, to be told that I could live the life that I wanted to live; that I didn't need a job, or to be shouted at; that I could be myself; that I could be happy.

I myself have been on my own and utterly independent since I graduated. I haven't belonged to any company or any system. It isn't easy to live like this in Japan.

I'm a very individualistic person. That is why I don't belong to any political party or anything. I really believe in justice and freedom.

I am not in this world to live up to other people's expectations, nor do I feel that the world must live up to mine.

Gangsta to us didn't have anything to do with Al Capone and stuff like that. It's just about living your life the way you want to live it. And you're not going to let nothing stop you.

The free way of life proposes ends, but it does not prescribe means.

I don't want to live up to how people expect me to be.

In the age of the individual's liquidation, the question of individuality must be raised anew.

I know that many people kill off their real personality just to fit into this society, but why do we have to compromise? I never understood that. I decided to try to be myself and to live by my own values rather than those of others.

I appreciate individualism.

You know, our sense of individuality is just the number one target of civilization.

If society fits you comfortably enough, you call it freedom.

I am a rank individualist.

Conventional people are roused to fury by departure from convention, largely because they regard such departure as a criticism of themselves.

I'm not part of any movement; I don't like being fettered.