The Individual Quotes
It follows that at the beginning of his life the individual can accomplish wonders without effort and quite unconsciously.
Personally, I believe there's a limitation to how much politics can change the world--but there's no limitation to how much individuals can change the world.
The only justifiable purpose of political institutions is to ensure the unhindered development of the individual.
You're not going to find me in something someone else is wearing. Unless, of course, he's a very swaggy individual.
I would say democracy once meant an organizational society and a state, in which the individual citizen is - feels - responsible, and acts responsibly, and participates in decision-making.
The sick individual finds himself at home with all other similarly sick individuals. The whole culture is geared to this kind of pathology.
Stop making me feel good. If you are anti-Semitic, fine. If you don't like me personally, fine. But deal with me as an individual, not as a Jew.
We have to address individual acts of corruption. This is a necessary approach. Go after these individuals.
Solitude in the presence of natural beauty and grandeur is the cradle of thought and aspirations which are not only good for the individual, but which society can ill do without.
Football is a team sport, and there is no one individual who is bigger than the next person.
Consider any individual at any period of his life, and you will always find him preoccupied with fresh plans to increase his comfort.
Fascism is a religious conception in which man is seen in his immanent relationship with a superior law and with an objective Will that transcends the particular individual.
The meaning of economic freedom is this: that the individual is in a position to choose the way in which he wants to integrate himself into the totality of society.
The vision of personalised public services - meeting the individual needs of all our citizens - requires continuing reform in the way services are delivered
When a law enforcement officer apprehends an illegal immigrant, it makes no sense to simply release that individual who has been breaking our laws with no threat of sanction or penalty.
The sickness of the individual is ultimately caused by and sustained by the sickness of his civilization
Suffering is always the effect of wrong thought in some direction. It is an indication that the individual is out of harmony with himself, with the Law of his being.
Story is a medicine which strengthens and arights the individual and the community.
The energy available for each individual man is his income, and the philosophy which can teach him to be content with penury should be capable of teaching him also the uses of wealth.
Regardless of what we say, it's what we do that reveals what we as a church or individual actually believe about God and His will for us.
Every individual has his own style, his own way of presenting himself on and off the field.
I feel I'm doing God's work switching people from group plans to individual insurance.
I think I'll stick to what I'm used to, my principles, and that is team Number 1 and individual Number 2.
It is the greatest good for an individual to discuss virtue (aka areté) every day...for the unexamined life is not worth living.
Busyness, keeping up with others, hustling hither and yon, makes it almost impossible for an individual to form a heart.
The State practices "violence," the individual must not do so. The state's behavior is violence, and it calls its violence "law"; that of the individual, "crime".
This is why I say that the individual's most potent weapon is a stubborn belief in the triumph of common decency.
Progress is personal; it comes from individuals demanding more of themselves and everyone else.
For a people, as for an individual, it is tragic to have ambitions and to lack both the means essential to their fulfillment and any hope of acquiring those means.
No individual can achieve worthy goals without accepting accountability for his or her own actions.
We are limited only by our lack of creativity. Our buildings should symbolize the exuberance of a free nation that encourages individual effort and creativity.
My idea for every exhibition is we should be able to see every individual work without being distracted by the others, and it doesn't matter if it's quite crowded.
The majority, oppressing an individual, is guilty of a crime, abuses its strength, and by acting on the law of the strongest breaks up the foundations of society.
The game has its ups and downs, but you can never lose focus of your individual goals and you can't let yourself be beat because of lack of effort.
The good news is that women's roles have changed so dramatically over the past three decades that women now expect to have careers, balance work and family, express their individual autonomy.
Nothing is more powerful than an individual acting out their conscience, thus helping bring the collective conscience to life.
The one thing that unifies men in a given age is not their individual philosophies but the dominant problem that these philosophies are designed to solve.
I set about fifty-five years ago (1927) to see what a penniless, unknown human individual with a dependent wife and newborn child might be able to do effectively on behalf of all humanity
Without forgiveness there can be no future for a relationship between individuals or within and between nations.
It is because freedom means the renunciation of direct control of individual efforts that a free society can make use of so much more knowledge than the mind of the wisest ruler could comprehend.
Adjective salad is delicious, with each element contributing its individual and unique flavor; but a puree of adjective soup tastes yecchy.
This principle of unity of the whole along with respect for individual differences is symbolized in the Mishkan, the Tabernacle.
It would be against all nature for all the Negroes to be either at the bottom, top, or in between. We will go where the internal drive carries us like everybody else. It is up to the individual.
Adolescence as the time when an individual ‘recapitulates’ the savage stage of the race’s past.