The Individual Quotes

Liberty is to the collective body, what health is to every individual body. Without health no pleasure can be tasted by man; without liberty, no happiness can be enjoyed by society.

What the Court really has refused to recognize is the fundamental interest all individuals have in controlling the nature of their intimate associations.

It is in the nature of a group and its power to turn against independence, the property of individual strength.

When new turns of behavior cease to appear in the life of the individual, its behavior ceases to be intelligent.

God should not be called an individual substance, since the principle of individuation is matter.

The individual source of the statistics may easily be the weakest link.

When your victimhood is your empowerment, recovery is the enemy, and working on 'individual change' becomes counterproductive, even dangerous to your identity.

A team will always appreciate a great individual if he's willing to sacrifice for the group.

As brilliant an individual that Michael Jordan was, he was not successful until he got with a good team unit.

The myth is a surviving fragment of the psychic life of the infancy of the race whilst the dream is the myth of the individual.

I sensed that women wanted to be a little different. My fluidity gave them a way of interpreting their bodies in a more personal, individual way.

I believe my arrival was most welcome, not only to the Commander of the Fleet but almost to every individual in it.

The story behind every song is individual to itself.

The professional arms himself with patience, not only to give the stars time to align in his career, but to keep himself from flaming out in each individual work.

The very idea of the power and the right of the people to establish government presupposes the duty of every individual to obey the established government.

I think people dream in their own way, dreams are extremely personal, even from person to person. They are completely individual.

The journalistic vision sharpens to the point of maximum impact every event, every individual and social configuration; but the honing is uniform.

Identity in the form of continuity of personality is an extremely important characteristic of the individual.

The heart of the liberal philosophy is a belief in the dignity of the individual, in his freedom to make the most of his capacities and opportunities according to his own lights.

The individual is far better-positioned to wait patiently for the right pitch while paying no regard to what others are doing, which is almost impossible for professionals.

We are equal inhabitants of a paradise of individuals in which everybody has the right to be understood.

Every individual alive today, even the very highest, is to be derived in an unbroken line from the first and lowest forms.

I don't really have a lot of appropriate feelings for people on an individual basis, but I've always wanted to make people happy.

Whether the authorities be invaders or merely local tyrants, the effect of such [gun control] laws is to place the individual at the mercy of the state, unable to resist.

If individuals are rational, there is no need to protect them against their own choices.

The illusion of skill is not only an individual aberration; it is deeply ingrained in the culture of the [investment management] industry.

Individual investors predictably flock to stocks in companies that are in the news.

Broadway is not just the song and the shows; it's the individual performers and the community.

You'll find individuals agreeing on this, but when they get into collective societies and larger groups they find it difficult to achieve group agreement.

Homelessness is a part of our American system. There should be nothing wrong with this condition as long as the individual is not sentenced to unnecessary suffering and punishment.

The duty of the individual farmer, at this time, is to increase his production, particularly of food crops.

The man fitted for affairs and authority never considers individuals, but things and their consequences.

Natural resources are so vast that no single individual or business is going to protect them; they don't have an incentive to.

The proper balance between individual liberty and central authority is a very ancient problem.

Wisdom is like a baobab tree; no one individual can embrace it.

The individual is not only best qualified to provide his own personal defense, he is the only one qualified to do so: and his right to do so is guaranteed by the Constitution.

Of course there are individual racists in America. Sadly that's true. And sadly that will always be true. It's true in this country, it will be true because it's human nature.

What unleashes action is an individual's willingness to make mistakes - even to look foolish or stupid.

Climbing is individual thing, it's a reflection of yourself. When you put up a route you're looking at yourself. If you chisel holds, it's your responsibility, nobody else's.

anything that becomes a cult, or a mass movement, loses its moral and spiritual value. The crusade has to be personal, individual. As soon as it becomes collective it loses its purpose.

The basis of conservatism is a desire for less government interference or less centralized authority or more individual freedom...

Well, I have also believed in empowering the individual and believe there is a degree of inertia in big government that hampers the ability to respond to a rapidly evolving crisis.

The Bible and its teachings helped form the basis for the Founding Fathers' abiding belief in the inalienable rights of the individual.

Public office is a public trust, the authority and opportunities of which must be used as absolutely as the public moneys for the public benefit, and not for the purposes of any individual or party.

The average bright young man who is drafted hates the whole business because an army always tries to eliminate the individual differences in men.

My thesis is that morality exists outside the human mind in the sense of being not just a trait of individual humans, but a human trait; that is, a human universal.

A reactionary is someone who wants to return to a previous state - that's never a possibility in my books. For me, everything's irreversible in the life of a society, as well as an individual's.

Realization doesn't destroy the individual any more than the reflection of the moon breaks a drop of water. A drop of water can reflect the whole sky.

God seeks for your individual happiness above all other godly concerns.

People are impatient. They want things to happen overnight, and have no idea of the circumstances and situations that can surround an individual at times.