The Individual Quotes

I think there's a huge difference between describing norms in a vivid way and singling out individual people.

I have always regarded the development of the individual as the only legitimate goal of education.

Pioneering is the work of individuals.

Laws are felt only when the individual comes into conflict with them.

Marriage is not for individual happiness, but for the welfare of the nation and the caste.

As a society we cannot seem to make peace with nature. As individuals, it's hard for us to be at peace with ourselves.

An individual doesn't get cancer, a family does.

The condition of the most passionate enthusiast is to be preferred over the individual who, because of the fear of making a mistake, won't in the end affirm or deny anything

While rationalism at the individual level is a plea for more personal autonomy from cultural norms, at the social level it is often a claim- or arrogation- of power to stifle the autonomy of others.

Everybody in America is going to have to sacrifice to help us rebuild the Gulf Coast. Every government program, every individual, we are all going to have to sacrifice

I don't know how smart I am, but I was a student of the game and I still watch games and still pick up things. If you watch individual players you will see genius.

Thoughts, and words that spring from them, bend the individual's reality. To speak of death is to invite it. To think of sorrow is to produce it.

But there will come a time and a place to give back, and each individual will recognize that time and place.

Demonstration of individual talent involves originality and it is easy to destroy natural talent.

I'm not fashionable, and I know nothing about fashion, but I have my individual style, and style is eternal.

The assumption of being merely individuals is our greatest limitation.

I do not see any essential difference between abstract and primitive art. Both are simple and sincere. Naturally, we should not generalize in these matters: It is the individual artist that counts.

As to the American tradition of non-meddling, Anarchism asks that it be carried down to the individual himself.

The individual has been crushed by our style of management today.

The whole theory of the universe is directed unerringly to one single individual.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Creation is too grand, complex, and mysterious to be captured in a narrow creed. That is why we cherish individual freedom of belief.

Next to the right of liberty, the right of property is the most important individual right guaranteed by the Constitution . .

We hold that the Constitution does not forbid the states minor intrusions into an individual's body under stringently limited conditions.

What the whole community comes to believe in grasps the individual as in a vise.

There can be no existence of evil as a force to the healthy-minded individual.

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.

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.

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.

I hold that any religion that satisfies the individual urge is valid for that person.

The inequality between the world's individuals is staggering.

Not just charity, even corruption begins at home.

He who is unconscious of the ties which connect him with every individual of his species feels no obligation to make sacrifices for their welfare or happiness.

On a personal level, I don't have many individual achievements.

Education for all seems to be the product of a type of distributive justice that is in no way related to the individual.

We need to move beyond the demonisation of overpaid traders ... In finance and economics, ill-designed policy is a more powerful force for harm than individual greed or error.

...we understand only the individual's capacity to make sacrifices for the community, for his fellow men.

I think you can give meaning to any condition; you can be poor or unsuccessful or be so-called successful. But I don't think that it would give an individual human being a better condition.

The individual may be understood as one particular focal point at which the whole universe expresses itself - as an incarnation of the self, or of the Godhead, or whatever one may choose to call it.

The only security lies in individual, personal honesty, The law cannot make people honest.

You must be aware that most men (and also not only a few women) are by nature not monogamous. This nature makes itself even more forceful when tradition and circumstance stand in an individual's way.

Is there not a certain satisfaction in the fact that natural limits are set to the life of the individual, so that at the conclusion it may appear as a work of art?

I would like to be remembered as one of the individuals who founded, ideologically and practically, cognitive behavior therapy and who pioneered multimodal or integrated therapy.

Ironically enough, the only people who can hold up indefinitely under the stress of modern war are psychotics. Individual insanity is immune to the consequences of collective insanity.

We all try to be alike in our youth, and individual in our middle age ... although we sometimes mistake eccentricity for individuality.