The Individual Quotes

Individual liberty, the basic underpinning of American society, requires constant defense against the encroachment of the state.

I believe deeply that every one of us has an individual talent or trait that can be used to make a difference in some way.

No matter how many plots we uncover and disrupt, no matter how many terrorist organizations we degrade or destroy, another individual or group will rise to take their place.

A gene might be able to assist replicas of itself that are sitting in other bodies. If so, this would appear as individual altruism but it would be brought about by gene selfishness.

nonviolence first changes the individual.

You can only get discipline in the mass by discipline in the individual.

Esoteric philosophy teaches that the physical form, the body, of the individual is made new at birth; but the soul is ancient, the stuff of stars.

That the variability of an organism to a certain extent is a constant and certain condition of life we admit, otherwise there would be no distinguishable individuals of a species.

The intellectual is an individual with a specific public role in society that cannot be reduced simply to . . a faceless professional.

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.

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.

Our choices at all levels-individual, community, corporate and government-affect nature. And they affect us.

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

Individuals with a good self esteem can accept or reject the opinions of others, but never depend on them for their sense of worthiness.

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.

Even though we want huge individual egos, our collective ego is unbelievable.

Each individual is as individual as their fingerprints, and I think that's extraordinary.

Creative individuals are more likely to have not only the strengths of their own gender but those of the other one, too.

Human beings are not like they are portrayed in Hollywood. They are individuals who are a mixture of good and bad.

The penal code deals with things like theft, false testimony, adultery, fornication, etc. and then there's the law of the state, the law of the individual and the law of the public.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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

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

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.

I honestly think that my sincerity lies with my country and each and every individual who knows me will agree with this fact.

Life is a republic where the individuals are for the most part unconscious that while they are working for themselves they are also working for the public good.