The Individual Quotes
The farther a society progresses, the more clearly the individual becomes the antithesis of the group.
There is something about guitars—maybe something magical—when played right, which evokes past, mysterious, barely-conscious sentiments, both individual and universal.
The essential function of the State is to maintain peace, justice, law, and order, and to protect the individual citizen against aggression, violence, theft, and fraud.
Directing is one of my favourite things to do because I love telling stories and I love working with the individual artists and it's something that I really missed.
The greater the hold of government upon the life of the individual citizen, the greater the risk of war.
Any individual can be, in time, what he earnestly desires to be, if he but sets his face steadfastly in the direction of that one thing, and bring all his powers to bear upon its attainment.
If we are to understand the interactions of a large number of agents, we must first be able to describe the capabilities of individual agents.
The only fruitful promise of which the life of any individual or any nation can be possessed, is a promise determined by an ideal.
Nobody, who has not been in the interior of a family, can say what the difficulties of any individual of that family may be.
Individual freedom is a Jewish idea, but it's one of the functions of Christianity to make this idea universal.
Each individual member of a co-operative society works with that interest which is inseparable from the new position he enjoys. Each has an interest in the other.
The regeneration of society is the regeneration of society by individual education.
It is remarkable that jealousy of individual property in land often goes along with very exaggerated doctrines of tribal or national property in land.
Be yourself. An original is always worth more than a copy.
I hold that any religion that satisfies the individual urge is valid for that person.
Singing with others is an unmediated, shared experience as each person feels the same music reverberating in their individual bodies. Singing is part of our humanity; it is embodied empathy.
Being in love, she concluded, is simply a presentation of our pasts to another individual, mostly packages so unwieldy that we can no longer manage the loosened strings alone.
In the highest government office, you have to be ready to bow out at any time, otherwise you are not a free individual anymore.
However it is debased or misinterpreted, love is a redemptive feature. To focus on one individual so that their desires become superior to yours is a very cleansing experience.
As an individual becomes aware of subliminal phenomena, the shock may cause him some initial physical or emotional discomfort - possibly even concern over his sanity.
The accumulation of small, optimistic acts produces quality in our culture and in your life. Our culture resonates in tense times to individual acts of grace.
Education is the preparation of the individual for reciprocal union with society; the preparation of the individual so that he can help his fellow-men and in return receive and appreciate their help.
There is no doubt that each of us is born an individual. Why is it then that so many of us die carbon copies?
We hold that the Constitution does not forbid the states minor intrusions into an individual's body under stringently limited conditions.
Next to the right of liberty, the right of property is the most important individual right guaranteed by the Constitution . .
Creation is too grand, complex, and mysterious to be captured in a narrow creed. That is why we cherish individual freedom of belief.
Supreme art is a traditional statement of certain heroic and religious truth, passed on from age to age, modified by individual genius, but never abandoned.
If each one does their duty as an individual and if each one works in their own proper vocation, it will be right with the whole.
The discovery of various phenomena has led to a recognition of the fact that the chemical atom is an individual which again is itself made up of several units into a selfcontained whole.
You honor me greatly and beyond my ability as an individual but in so doing you honor my colleagues also who made possible the results you have cited.
When we say that the persistence of competition is ensured by fate, we mean that individual freedom is so guaranteed. The one thing to which fate binds us is liberty.
The individual always realizes only one of the possibilities in his development, which could always have taken a different turning whenever he had to make an important decision.
Nothing of significance was ever achieved by an individual acting alone. Look below the surface and you will find that all seemingly solo acts are really team efforts.
An interesting question: is it easier to motivate a learned individual that never does anything, or educate an ignorant individual that actually produces things?
Over no nation does the press hold a more absolute control than over the people of America, for the universal education of the poorest classes makes every individual a reader.
Individual scientists like myself - and many more conspicuous - pointed to the dangers of radioactive fallout over Canada if we were to launch nuclear weapons to intercept incoming bombers.
With every exertion, the best of men can do but a moderate amount of good; but it seems in the power of the most contemptible individual to do incalculable mischief.
It's not debt per say that overwhelms an individual corporation or country. Rather it is a continuous increase in debt in relation to income that causes trouble.
I love the United States, but I see here everything is measured by success, by how much money it makes, not the satisfaction to the individual.
I'm growing as an individual, but your always growing. All of my albums are snapshots of where I am artistically.
