The Individual Quotes

Socialize the individual's surplus and you socialize his spirit and creativeness.

Of all religious systems, Islam alone declares that individual perfection is possible in our earthly existence.

I never look at the masses as my responsibility. I look at the individual. I can love only one person at a time. I can feed only one person at a time. Just one, one, one.

In this era of globalization we are witnessing struggles within individual states about what their identity and interests consist in.

You can only elevate individual performance by elevating that of the entire system.

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

Revolution is something that actually starts in individual hearts.

Each individual Christian and every community is called to be an instrument of God for the liberation and promotion of the poor.

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.

Altruism itself depends on a recognition of the reality of other persons, and on the equivalent capacity to regard oneself as merely one individual among many.

Physical pain is not a simple affair of an impulse, travelling at a fixed rate along a nerve. It is the resultant of a conflict between a stimulus and the whole individual.

Never violate the sacredness of your individual self-respect. Be true to your own mind and conscience, your heart and your soul. So only can you be true to God.

Wait, I'm deciding to be my own individual self. And it looks nothing like what anyone else is doing.

When a system of oppression has become institutionaliz ed it is unnecessary for individuals to be oppressive

He reveals that he has been a poor politician, a bad judge and a malevolent individual.

It is only to the individual that a soul is given.

We believe firmly that Communism internally and externally can and must be fought without resort to the Communist tactics of the suppression of all individual freedom.

The aim of poetry and the poet is finally to be of service, to ply the effort of the individual into the larger work of the community as a whole.

Individuals who deliberately decide not to take offense lead happier, more productive lives.

When individuals change, society will change. And when society changes, the whole world will change. The welfare of the individual is bound up with the welfare of society as a whole.

No one can be free unless he is independent. Therefore, the first active manifestations of the child's individual liberty must be so guided that through this activity he may arrive at independence.

During my eighty-seven years I have witnessed a whole succession of technological revolutions. But none of them has done away with the need for character in the individual or the ability to think.

I have served one idea, marched under one banner - war against all imposed authority - against every kind of deprivation of freedom, in the name of the absolute independence of the individual.

There have been only rare moments in history where individual histories were able to run their course without wars or revolutions.

The university is a series of individual entrepreneurs held together by a common grievance about parking.

Generality is, indeed, an indispensable ingredient of reality; for mere individual existence or actuality without any regularity whatever is a nullity. Chaos is pure nothing.

Is not the very beginning of privilege, monopoly and industrial slavery this erecting of the ballot-box above the individual?

We believe that the government has an important role to create the conditions that promote entrepreneurship, upward mobility, and individual responsibility.

God's eternal plan has always been to display his glory not just through individuals but through a corporate body.

Today the predatory state, or the predatory group of states, with power of total destruction, is no more to be tolerated than the predatory individual.

Government will no longer be run on the whims of individuals.

Science is what scientists do, and there are as many scientific methods as there are individual scientists.

The more survival skills an individual has that have been practiced physically and otherwise, the better odds they have for those skills coming to the forefront during a stressful emergency.

Wth subtly developed body awareness, it is possible for the individual to become the conscious orchestrator of health.

We might all be so afraid to be who we are, but in the end, it's really you're individual, unique qualities that make you attractive to people.

Every drummer that had a name, had a name because of his individual playing. He didn't sound like anybody else, So everybody that I ever listened to, in some form, influenced my taste.

But the general welfare must restrict and regulate the exertions of the individuals, as the individuals must derive a supply of their strength from social power.

All people and each individual man is called to come into the Church.

[T]he history of science has proved that fundamental research is the lifeblood of individual progress and that the ideas that lead to spectacular advances spring from it.

A time of famine and poverty will come and the people as a whole as well as every individual in it will suffer.

The short story is the art form that deals with the individual when there is no longer a society to absorb him, and when he is compelled to exist, as it were, by his own inner light.

I am opposed to any individual taxes until we eliminate all of the unconstitutional agencies, and I suspect we wouldn't need a tax after that.

If you teach a boy, you educate an individual; but if you teach a girl, you educate a community.

The successful investor is usually an individual who is inherently interested in business problems.

Science cannot describe individuals, but only types. If human societies cannot be classified, they must remain inaccessible to scientific description.

There's people that focus on the game and forget about the art. There's that specific special individual that can do both.

I am apt to suspect the Negroes to be naturally inferior to the Whites. There scarcely ever was a civilization of their complexion, nor even any individual, eminent either in action or speculation.

In a democracy, the individual enjoys not only the ultimate power but carries the ultimate responsibility.

The two great movements of our century -- towards Liberty of the individual and social co-operation of the whole community -- are summed up in Anarchist-Communism.

A free society is one in which individuals are free to discover for themselves the available range of alternatives.