The Individual Quotes

To all general purposes we have uniformly been one people each individual citizen everywhere enjoying the same national rights, privileges, and protection.

It is from among such individuals that all human failures spring.

France, for example, loves at the same time history and the drama, because the one explores the vast destinies of humanity, and the other the individual lot of man.

Each human being is a more complex structure than any social system to which he belongs.

Religion is what the individual does with his own solitariness. Thus religion is solitariness; and if you are never solitary, you are never religious.

I'm a reasonably articulate individual.

[Freedom is] the societal condition that exists when every individual has 100% control of his own property.

That's the whole point of... of prosecutorial discretion in the judicial system. It's finding a just outcome in an individual case.

The anger came creeping back like the leak from a dripping water tank, the fall of each individual drop passing almost unnoticed until I realized I was soaked with the emotion.

The personal pronoun "I" should be the coat of arms of some individuals.

Even the best of men in authority are liable to be corrupted by passion. We may conclude then that the law is reason without passion, and it is therefore preferable to any individual.

Sometimes a decision has to be made by a single individual, who has the authority to enforce it. That's why you need a captain. You can't run a ship by a committee-at least not all the time.

A moral principle in genetic testing is that it should always be done with the consent of the individual. No one wants someone snooping into his DNA.

Educate a man and you educate an individual. Educate a woman and you educate a family.

Nobody is more individual than you, so be confident with who you are and what you have to offer because everybody has got things to offer.

those who judge must take all aspects of an individual's personality into account.

The key to freedom is accepting my own autonomy as an individual, and respecting the autonomy of other individuals, with all of what that means - whatever that means.

I really think there's an evolution to the practice and the individual no matter what brings you in, whether it's wine and yoga or chocolate and yoga or surfing and yoga.

Mere connection with what is known as a superior race will not permanently carry an individual forward unless the individual has worth.

Persistence is the great measure of individual human character.

When folks get to the best of their profession, people are like, "Who am I to give a critique to this individual who's reached mastery?".

It is curious that while one's education is the part of one's life over the conditions of which one has least individual control, the results of it are held to brand one irrevocably.

Life's values originate in circumstances over which the individual has no control.

All the greatest achievements of mind have been beyond the power of unaided individuals.

It's difficult to say what's luck and what's not because everything depends on what you learn along the way, and that depends on you as an individual. So I suppose, no, I don't believe in it.

Using references of current technology, Martin Luther King Jr. could mentally cut and paste better than any individual I have ever known.

To observe a profoundly stupid individual can be very enriching, and that's why we should never feel contempt for them.

Art has definitely influenced how I think of design, both as individual items and as a body of work.

Inner disarmament, external disarmament; these must go together, you see. Peace is not just mere absence of violence - genuine peace must start in each individual heart.

The egotistical ambition to always want to earn more money harms both the company and the individual himself. That is the biggest weakness of many managers - the financial crisis has proven this.

Peace in the world relies on individuals finding inner peace.

Typically, when you have a depressed individual, they feel hopeless. They feel miserable. Their mind is racing, their heart is pounding. They feel anxious. They feel exhausted yet they can't sleep.

If our gospel does not free the individual up for a unique life of spiritual adventure in living with God daily, we simply have not entered fully into the good news that Jesus brought.

Lucky risk takers use hindsight to reinforce their feeling that their gut is very wise. Hindsight also reinforces others' trust in that individual's gut.

There's a tendency to look at investments in isolation. Investors focus on the risk of individual securities.

To operate а tank as a crew, it's not about five individuals. It has to be one organism, composed of five people.

It would be through individual effort, inspired perhaps by reading Nietzsche's books, that the Overman might emerge, not through social or educational engineering.

Keep in mind that your individual vote doesn't mean anything.

A man stands alone at the plate. This is the time for what? For individual achievement. There he stands alone. But in the field, what? Part of a team.

It would be a colorless world if each individual did not secretly believe himself superior to almost everyone else.

I am pro-life, and I will be appointing pro-life judges, I would think that that will go back to the individual states.

The core of character lies in each individual story person's ability to care about something; to feel implicitly or explicitly that something is important.

What's true for us as individual humans is true for the civilization we create: a sprint culture, seeking ever greater speed and power in all things cannot endure.

The well-being of individual persons in any society varies inversely with the money at the disposal of the political class.

Industry suffers from the managerial dogma that for the sake of stability and continuity, the company should be independent of the competence of individual employees.

The valuable person in any business is the individual who can and will cooperate with others.

It is a brave thing to have courage to be an individual; it is also, perhaps, a lonely thing. But it is better than not being an individual, which is to be nobody at all.

Tyranny destroys or strengthens the individual; freedom enervates him, until he becomes no more than a puppet. Man has more chances of saving himself by hell than by paradise.

When an individual is awake, almost all he does and says is inspired by the model of behavior that the society imposes,even without his being aware of it.

The role of the pastor is to embody the gospel. And of course to get it embodied, which you can only do with individuals, not in the abstract.