The Individual Quotes
We already have so much pressure towards sameness through radio, film and comic outside the school, that we can't afford to do a thing inside that is not toward individual development.
An artist must find his expression closely linked to his individual experience or else follow in the old grooves resulting in lifeless forms.
Happiness lies neither in vice nor in virtue; but in the manner we appreciate the one and the other, and the choice we make pursuant to our individual organization.
History uses a unit of measure for time that is different from that of the lifespan of the individual, whereas man is only too ready to measure the evolution of history by his own yardstick.
It is impossible to get the measure of what an individual can accomplish unless the responsibility is given him.
In our society, daily experience teaches the individual to want and need a never-ending supply of new toys and drugs.
In the development of mankind as a whole, just as in individuals, love alone acts as the civilizing factor in the sense that it brings a change from egoism to altruism.
Parents sometimes forget that after the child emerges from the utter physical and mental helplessness of infancy, it is becoming more and more an individual.
I've never been a fan of individual awards because football is such a team sport. There's so many things that goes into making plays. It's about teammates trusting one another and working together.
Every nation must now develop an overriding loyalty to mankind as a whole in order to preserve the best in their individual societies.
In a competitive world of limited resources, total freedom of individual action is intolerable
Socrates demonstrated long ago, that the truly free individual is free only to the extent of his own self-mastery.
Poetry's role is to provide spontaneous individual candor as distinct from manipulation and brainwash.
The individual disposition is already a factor in childhood; it is innate, and not acquired in the course of a life.
Private enterprise manages better all that to which it is equal. Anarchism declares that private enterprise, whether individual or cooperative, is equal to all the undertakings of society.
The survival of American democracy depends less on the size of its armies than on the capacity of its individual citizens to rely... on the strength of their own thought.
I love man as my fellow; but his scepter, real, or usurped, extends not to me, unless the reason of an individual demands my homage; and even then the submission is to reason, and not to man.
To deliberately criticise another individual may cause an indelible stain on the critic.
Bad companies are destroyed by crisis. Good companies survive them. Great individuals, like great companies, find a way to transform weakness into strength.
I love the success of my teammates more than my individual achievements. I've just always cared more about that since I started playing.
The general will rules in society as the private will governs each separate individual.
The progress of an artist is a continual self-sacrifice, a continual extinction of personality.
The isolation of every human soul and the necessity of self- dependence must give each individual the right to choose his own surroundings.
It is not the most lovable individuals who stand more in need of love, but the most unlovable
Groups are grammatical fictions; only individuals exist, and each individual is different.
Efficient management without effective leadership is, as one individual phrased, it, "like straightening deck chairs on the Titanic".
In the eyes of God all men, indeed all creatures, may be equal: but the divine law of the individual is to maintain and to defend his individuality.
I believe love to be hurtful to society, and to the individual happiness of men. I believe, in short, that love does more harm than good.
If you don't believe what I'm telling you, then ask yourself this: would any decent, kind-hearted individual become a writer? Of course not.
Fights between individuals, as well as governments and nations, invariably result from misunderstandings in the broadest interpretation of this term.
Self-knowledge is the basis of jeet kune do because it is effective not only for the individual's martial art but also for his life as a human being.
In the latter case life rests upon a thousand presuppositions which the individual can never trace back to their origins, and verify; but which he must accept upon faith and belief.
I'm gonna make sure you talk about me, and your grandkids and kids after that gonna know about me...your great grandkids will say "wow, wasn't that a bizarre individual?"
Intercessory prayer is the purifying bath into which the individual and the community must enter every day.
When you don't work together you can't emerge as a force. It becomes what some call a "lonely struggle" and individual self-destruction.
In all my work, I'm interested in understanding big issues through the lives of individuals.
Creation is always happening. Every time and individual has a thought, or a prolonged chronic way of thinking, they're in the creation process. Something is going to manifest out of those thoughts.
Strength is derived from unity. The range of our collective vision is far greater when individual insights become one.
The moral climate of any organization, larger than that of the individual, is created hour by hour through the multitude of choices and behaviors of its members.
The essence of spirituality is, to be constantly aware of the oneness of all; at the same time to celebrate the uniqueness of the individual.
From what may anyone be saved? Only from themselves! That is, their individual hell. They dig it with their own desires.
The fight against drug trafficking is a wildfire that threatens to consume those fundamental rights of the individual deliberately enshrined in our Constitution.
To me, poetry is about survival first of all. Survival of the individual self, survival of the emotional life.
What volunteers bring is the human touch, the individual, caring approach that no government program, however well-meaning and well- executed, can deliver.
The object of the state is always the same: to limit the individual, to tame him, to subordinate him, to subjugate him.
Any organization or any individual that targets civilians and kills them for political agenda is a terrorist organization.
But, is it possible for princes and ministers to be enlightened, when private individuals are not so?
When the narrator feels like an octopus, when he says his limbs are starting to multiply, he means he has inklings of orders of perception beyond his individual body.
