The Individual Quotes
Every satisfaction he attains lays the seeds of some new desire, so that there is no end to the wishes of each individual will.
Every individual has the power to change his or her material or financial status by first changing the nature of his or her beliefs.
Expelled from individual consciousness by the rush of change, history finds its revenge by stamping the collective unconsciousness with habits and values.
Each individual has a universal responsibility to shape institutions to serve human needs.
The right of an individual to conduct intimate relationships in the intimacy of his or her own home seems to me to be the heart of the Constitutions protection of privacy.
Capitalism is about producing a better product at a better price. As individuals, we have to keep producing better products at a better price, also, or we're obsolete.
Mass Man, the universal psychopath, is born when the individual ego is weakened to the point at which it loses separate identity and is forced, for security, to merge with the mass.
Poetry’s medium is the individual chest and throat and mouth of whoever undertakes to say the poem.
The values to which the conservative appeals are inevitably caricatured by the individuals designated to put them into practice.
What is true of every member of the society, individually, is true of them all collectively; since the rights of the whole can be no more than the sum of the rights of the individuals.
Law is often the tyrant's will, and always so when it violates the right of an individual.
We need myths that will identify the individual not with his local group but with the planet.
A culture is not the anonymous product of undifferentiate d masses, but the sum of the intellectual achievements of individual men.
... the smaller the domain where choices among alternatives are made collectively, the smaller will be the probability that any individual's preference gets overruled.
The aim of Zen training is to attain the state of consciousness which occurs when the individual ego is emptied of itself and becomes identified with the infinite reality of all things.
The purest lesson our era has taught is that man, at his highest, is an individual, single, isolate, alone, in direct soul-communication with the unknown God, which prompts within him.
The greatest height of heroism to which an individual, like a people, can attain is to know how to face ridicule.
Large portions of life's disappointments are individuals who did not understand that they were so near achievement when they surrendered.
Prison continues, on those who are entrusted to it, a work begun elsewhere, which the whole of society pursues on each individual through innumerable mechanisms of discipline.
Away with all ideals. Let each individual act spontaneously from the forever incalculable prompting of the creative wellhead within him. There is no universal law.
In his state of complete powerlessness the individual perceives the time he has left to live as a brief reprieve.
The women in my family are just strong women who do their own thing, so I knew I needed to have individuals like that.
A mom isn't an individual to lean on, but a person to generate leaning needless.
Whatever the human law may be, neither an individual nor a nation can commit the least act of injustice against the obscurest individual without having to pay the penalty for it.
It is the measure of my individual struggle from darkness toward some measure of light.
To like an individual because he's black is just as insulting as to dislike him because he isn't white.
To walk behind others on a road you are traveling together, to give precedence to others without envy - this is painful for an individual and painful for a nation.
Ability to persevere begins with you, the individual. However, change is rarely easy. In fact, sometimes it is downright formidable.
What the psychedelics are for us as a species, rather than for each one of us as an individual, what they are for us as a species is an enzyme that catalyzes the language-making capacity.
Until every individual feels personally responsible for the careful planning and the preservation of natural resources, the inexorable destruction will go on.
There is not one big cosmic meaning for all, there is only the meaning we each give to our life, an individual meaning, an individual plot, like an individual novel, a book for each person.
Every individual has the potentiality to become enlightened in the course of this life or later existences
Peace is not merely the absence of visible conflict. Only a just peace based on the inherent rights and dignity of every individual can truly be lasting.
If you could say of any one individual that the court as an institution is the length and shadow of that individual, surely it would be John Marshall.
Any altruistic system is inherently unstable, because it is open to abuse by selfish individuals, ready to exploit it.
The creative individual has the capacity to free himself from the web of social pressures in which the rest of us are caught. He is capable of questioning the assumptions that the rest of us accept.
People love westerns worldwide. There's something fantasy-like about an individual fighting the elements. Or even bad guys and the elements. It's a simpler time. There's no organized laws and stuff.
Where much is expected from an individual, he may rise to the level of events and make the dream come true.
If the mind is open the individual will soon perceive the preciousness of a truth which initially appeared rather dull to him but now is illumined by the spirit's light.
You run the risk of falling on your face, but, again, music is an individual pursuit - it is made to please yourself first.
