Emma Goldman Quotes

Insects were scurrying about in the shade cast by the grass, and the lawn was a huge monotonous forest of thousands of little green blades, all equal, all alike, hiding the world from each other. Anguished, she thought, "I don't want to be just another blade of grass."

Perhaps even more than constituted authority, it is social uniformity and sameness that harass the individual most.

I've noticed that most people tend to go through life preserving their differences from others.

The worst thing I can be is the same as everybody else. I hate that.

One of the shocking things when I go back to Canada is they cut off the tall trees - it's sort of like everyone's the same. Everyone's going to be the same, we're all okay. Just the, sort of, cultural, 'We're all okay.'

The idea of seeing everybody clad the same is not really my cup of tea.

I see the world become so uniform. Everybody has to be the same. I like people who are different.

So many boys and girls talk the same way, listen to the same music, look the same. If I'm out, I'll notice the person who looks different before I notice the person who's, 'really hot.'

It took me a long time to square with the fact that none of my experiences are typical - I'm not a typical American, but I'm also not a typical Muslim.

There are two ways to make a person feel homeless—one is to destroy his home and the other is to make his home look and feel like everybody else’s home.

I just feel like no one is the same.

I like the freedom America has. In Japan people tend to think too much about others' opinions and how to be like everybody else but to Americans it seems more important to be who you are and find your own way.

If you do the same as all the rest, you're the same as all the rest: I don't want to be just another player.

It's perfect to be the same as everyone else.

I like characters in life, generally; I don't like to see a collection modelled on a homogeneous look. That terrifies me.

A man must consider what a blindman's-buff is this game of conformity.

People have only one way to be.

Let's all be different same as me.

Men are created different; they lose their social freedom and their individual autonomy in seeking to become like each other.

For the more a soul conforms to the sanity of others, the more does it become insane.

Being like everybody is the same as being nobody.

The one thing I will never do is become pigeonholed.

Bobbed hair makes women look uniform. They lack individuality.

I'm not stereotypically Canadian. I don't really follow hockey. I don't feel like anything other than myself, basically.

I grew up in a small town where everyone wanted to be the same or look the same and was afraid to be different.