The Individual Quotes

Free and just political institutions are absolutely essential to the progress and development both of the individual and of the race.

A woman may have a witty tongue or a stinging pen but she will never laugh at her own individual shortcomings.

Reduced to its lowest terms, the great struggle which now rocks the whole earth more and more takes on the character of a struggle of the individual versus the state.

My style is personal, my style of writing is personal, and I believe in that. I believe what comes out of me is an individual thing, and that's why I, I believe in the individual.

These days there are not enough of such intermediary groups, between the state and the individual, with the result that political leaders are often unduly guided by opinion polls.

Human rights and individual liberties, including religious freedom, will be at the heart of the new Iraq.

Liberty is a political firewall that limits the damage government can do to the individual.

Society today is so organised that every individual group has the power to disrupt it. How is their power to be channelled into constructive channels?

Although individual temperaments vary, boys are designed to be more assertive, audacious, and excitable than girls are.

Even the recognition of an individual whom we see every day is only possible as the result of an abstract idea of him formed by generalization from his appearances in the past.

The State is concentric, but the individual is eccentric.

It is so often true that whether a person carries with him an atmosphere of gloom and depression or one of confidence and courage depends on his individual outlook.

In Socrates' thought the two marks of individual self-consciousness appear; it is practical and it is social.

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.

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.

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.

The individual who signs the check has the ultimate power.

It is my belief that one's salary is between an individual and the IRS.

My stepfather was a very nasty individual.

There is no doubt that each of us is born an individual. Why is it then that so many of us die carbon copies?

The century is advanced, but every individual begins afresh.

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.

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.

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?

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.

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.

In fact, the individual outlook becomes less and less valuable and more and more harmful unless it is transmitted into the corporate outlook.

The recycling of resource by the aggregate behavior of a diverse array of agents is much more than the sum of the individual actions.

An individual who stands out, or disagrees or takes risks is a danger to such systems and is effortlessly and, unconsciously sidelined.

Michael Jordan was a great individual and a great player. You can't say enough about what he brought to the game. He took the NBA to another level.

Whatever helps to shape the human being - to make the individual what he is, or hinder him from being what he is not - is part of his education.

Individual organisms are best thought of as adaptation-executers rather than as fitness-maximizers.

But I have always - ever since The Accidental Woman - written novels about individuals attempting to make choices in the context of situations over which they have no control.

Without privacy there was no point in being an individual.

My individual, psychological descent coincided, ironically, with my ascent into the public eye.

My biggest kick comes from the individual fans I run into. Middle-aged men ask me when we're going to do more Johnny Quest cartoons.

I knew that discrimination existed, even though there were many individuals who were not prejudiced.

By an individual being, whatever one's metaphysical doctrine, one means an unique being, that is, a being which is alone of its own type, or is such that no other of its class exists.

I think black Americans expect too much from individual black Americans in terms of changing the status quo.

Only as an individual can man become a philosopher.

The individual produces an object and, by consuming it, returns to himself, but returns as a productive and self reproducing individual. Consumption thus appears as a moment of production.

Each individual is unique. We all have equal worth. Young and old, those who can cope and those who need help.

Without peace, there is no freedom, individual or national. War and hostilities are a form of slavery.

Poetry is the work of poets, not of peoples or communities; artistic creation can never be anything but the production of an individual mind.

Gun control is part and parcel of the ongoing collectivist effort to eviscerate individual sovereignty and replace it with dependence upon and allegiance to the state.

When I think about Christian hip hop I think of an individual who is a Christian who is using hip hop to communicate things that God will endorse.

We should seek a system that provides outlets for those skills and talents so that everyone can find a way to work and serve in a manner that best suits the strengths of each individual.