The Individual Quotes
Arbitrary rule has its basis, not in the strength of the state or the chief, but in the moral weakness of the individual, who submits almost without resistance to the domineering power.
Compassion is an act of tolerance where kindness and forgiveness reign. When we make the compassionate choice, we enhance the dignity of each individual, which is the very essence of loving them.
Inside each one of us is a beautiful flower garden. This is the garden of the soul. With each lesson we learn, the garden grows. As we learn together, our individual gardens form a tranquil paradise.
The individual has always to struggle to keep from being overwhelmed by the tribe.
Had I to carve an inscription on my tombstone I would ask for none other than "The Individual."
All rational action is in the first place individual action. Only the individual thinks. Only the individual reasons. Only the individual acts.
Unless an investor has access to “incredibly high-qualified professionals,” they “should be 100 percent passive - that includes almost all individual investors and most institutional investors.
The individual act of obedience is the cornerstone not only of the strength of authoritarian society but also of its weakness.
Not every defeat of authority is a gain for individual freedom, nor every judicial rescue of a convict a victory for liberty.
Our very essence is Absolute Consciousness; without an I, without the consciousness of every individual, nothing really exists.
Since everybody is an individual, nobody can be you. You are unique. No one can tell you how to use your time. It is yours. Your life is your own. You mold it. You make it.
Unless each day can be looked back upon by an individual as one in which he has had some fun, some joy, some real satisfaction, that day is a loss.
God created me to be an individual. And I am a Chicago dude that grew up the way I grew up and was named Rashid and was given a certain purpose and mission. So, I am rare for those reasons.
There is no limit to what the Lord can do in and with and through any individual or any married couple who surrender themselves and their resources completely to His will and His way.
But only those who have aims and ambitions for the benefit, not of the individual, but of humankind as a whole can persevere to the end.
The personal life of every individual is based on secrecy, and perhaps it is partly for that reason that civilized man is so nervously anxious that personal privacy should be respected.
Originality exists in every individual because each of us differs from the others. We are all primary numbers divisible only by ourselves.
If world peace is to be established, peace in the individual must be established first. Transcendental Meditation directly brings peace in the individual life.
When everybody in a group is susceptible to similar biases, groups are inferior to individuals, because groups tend to be more extreme than individuals.
Government seems to operate on the principle that if even one individual is incapable of using his freedom competently, no one can be allowed to be free.
An individual, in promoting his own interest, may injure the public interest; a nation, in promoting the general welfare, may check the interest of a part of its members.
I think it's very important that we instill in our kids that it has nothing to do with their name or their situation that they're growing up in; it has to do with who they are as an individual.
The status quo was rote memorization and recitation in classrooms thronged with passive children who were sternly disciplined when they expressed individual needs.
Eroticism has its own moral justification because it says that pleasure is enough for me; it is a statement of the individual's sovereignty.
I love the relays. Track is such an individual sport, so it's fun to do something together.
I don't consider myself as the best player in the world. I'm not obsessed with individual titles. I'm much more interested in being part of a team which wins trophies.
Life ultimately means taking the responsibility to find the right answer to its problems and to fulfill the tasks which it constantly sets for each individual.
One must love humanity in order to reach out into the unique essence of each individual: no one can be too low or too ugly.
It may be that the deep necessity of art is the examination of individual's and society's self-deception.
It seems reasonable to expect that beauty will emerge from a fusion of the individual character and culture of the potter,with the nature of his materials.
The only thing in the world worth a damn is the strange, touching, pathetic, awesome nobility of the individual human spirit.
The collective unconscious contains the whole spiritual heritage of mankind's evolution born anew in the brain structure of every individual.
Now the identification of individual sounds by phonetic observation is an artificial way of proceeding.
The word realist means nothing to me, because I would subordinate reality to temperament. Give me what is true and I applaud; but give me what is individual and alive and I applaud even more.
The individual is not accountable to society for his actions in so far as these concern the interests of no person but himself.
Libertarians recognize the inevitable pluralism of the modern world and for that reason assert that individual liberty is at least part of the common good.
Every individual or national degeneration is immediately revealed by a directly proportional degradation in language.
Each individual Christian and every community is called to be an instrument of God for the liberation and promotion of the poor.
Testifying has helped me understand that one individual's behavior and actions make a difference. That my actions are important to people other than myself
Giving feels good. It is a form of healing. Not just for you as an individual, but for everyone.
The Christian doctrine is one that is both about individual spirituality and a parallel commitment to social justice.
