Kipling: no price is too high to pay for the privilege of owning yourself

The individual has always had to struggle to keep from being overwhelmed by the tribe. To be your own man is a hard business. If you try it, you’ll be lonely often, and sometimes frightened. But no price is too high to pay for the privilege of owning yourself.

• Rudyard Kipling from “Six Hours With Rudyard Kipling.” In: 𝑻𝒉𝒆 𝑲𝒊𝒑𝒍𝒊𝒏𝒈 𝑱𝒐𝒖𝒓𝒏𝒂𝒍. Vol. XXXIV. No. 162. June 1967, 5-8. See page 7.