The Individual Quotes

We either believe in the dignity of the individual, the rule of law, and the prohibition of cruel and unusual punishment, or we don't. There is no middle ground.

I abhor averages. I like the individual case. A man may have six meals one day and none the next, making an average of three meals per day, but that is not a good way to live.

No system of regulation can safely be substituted for the operation of individual liberty as expressed in competition.

Socialism and interventionism. Both have in common the goal of subordinating the individual unconditionally to the state.

Singing your own songs is all about individual expression

Government should work to insure the rights of the individual, not plot to take them away.

The conclusion, therefore, is that there are two major forces in society: love, which multiplies the species, and the nose, which subordinates it to the individual. Procreation, equilibrium.

A nonviolent life is an act of self-examination and self-purification, whether by an individual, group or nation.

Mr. Lapid, making an electrifying feature directing debut, traces the line between the group and the individual in a story that can be read as a commentary on the world as much as on Israel.

The human plagiarism which is most difficult to avoid, for individuals... is the plagiarism of ourselves.

Excessive liberty leads both nations and individuals into excessive slavery. [Lat., Nimia libertas et populis et privatis in nimiam servitutem cadit.]

Small aids to individuals, large aid to masses.

For what is the use of transmitting knowledge if the individual's total development lags behind?

Through my travels, I find inspiration in street style and how young women create their individual looks and identity.

Wanted has gone into second, third and fourth printings of the individual issues and the north American printings of Wanted #1 are now close to 100,000.

Literacy, the visual technology, dissolved the tribal magic by means of its stress on fragmentation and specialization and created the individual.

Like fundamentalist Judaism and medieval Christianity, Islam is totalist. That is to say, it makes a total claim on the individual.

My style is where you see the individual and where a personality is communicated through actions, decisions, single objects and facts, where the whole draws together to form a history

Faith cannot be inherited or gained by being baptized into a Church. Faith is a matter between the individual and God.

Peace is a blessing that comes to those who trust in God. It is established through individual righteousness. True personal peace comes about through eternal vigilance and constant righteous efforts.

The Christian tradition was passed on to me as a great rich mixture, a bouillabaisse of human imagination and wonder brewed from the richness of individual lives.

For me, in fact, the mark of the historic is the nonchalance with which it picks up an individual and deposits him in a trend, like a house playfully moved by a tornado.

Man is an individual. The animals, plants and minerals are divided into species. They are not individualized in the same sense that man is.

Communities don't have rights. Only individuals in the community have rights.

I don't think individual achievement in business is the most meaningful way for it to operate.

There are things that you can do on an individual level, even as you continue to fight oppression systemically, that make things a little bit better for an identifiable group.

Whatever else I know, I know that if you invest love and care in any individual you can help them to make a difference, to write their own life story.

In short, individual freedom of speech leads to a stronger society. But knowing that principle is not enough. You have to know how to put it to use on the Net.

Where the state begins, individual liberty ceases, and vice versa.

It all would have been much better if individuals saved for their own old age.

I'm growing as an individual, but your always growing. All of my albums are snapshots of where I am artistically.

Yoga is a philosophy of discipline and meditation that transforms the spirit and makes the individual a better person in thought, action, knowledge and devotion.

Where we see self esteem, we see self acceptance. High self esteem individual tend to avoid falling into an adversarial relationship with themselves.

The policy of seeking values from human beings by means of force, when practiced by an individual, is called crime. When practiced by a government, it is called statism.

We cannot understand our humanity just by studying individuals.

We live in a context, but we're also individuals. We need to explore both.

Every individual forms his own estimate of himself and that basic estimate goes far toward determining what he becomes.

Ultimately, we are not seeking others to bow to, but to reinforce our individual natures, to help us suffer our own choices, to guide us on our own particular journeys.

We believe, as our founders did, that 'the pursuit of happiness' depends upon individual liberty; and individual liberty requires limited government.

In government-directed economies, the collective takes priority over the individual. The moral ideal is equal results. That approach could not be further removed from the real world.

Omens are the individual language in which God talks to you. My omens are not your omens.

The ideal society has yet to be built - one which balances nicely collective well-being and individual well-being.

You ought to love all mankind; nay, every individual of mankind. You ought not to love the individuals of your domestic circles less, but to love those who exist beyond it more.

My best advice to individual investors can readily be summed up into two closely linked precepts. Be patient and don't be greedy.

When a stock doubles, sell half - then what you have is a free position. Then it becomes more of an art form. When you sell depends on individual circumstances.

The individual is the central, rarest, most precious capital resource of our society.

I continue to believe, contrary to the given wisdom, that it's more interesting to have an album - or, indeed, an individual song - which has variety rather than homogeneity.

I do not believe great organizations have ever been built by trying to emulate another, any more than individual greatness is achieved by trying to copy another 'great person'.

God is a spa-bath of water and we are all individual bubbles

There are amazing teachers, but the system doesn't always allow them to address the individual needs of a child.