The Individual Quotes

One writes of scars healed, a loose parallel to the pathology of the skin, but there is no such thing in the life of an individual.

Luxury and excessive refinement are sure forerunners of the decadence of states, because when all individuals seek their own interests they neglect the public weal.

Our mandate is to be a nation of laws. And the Supreme Court is the place where we look to safeguard our civil rights and our individual liberties.

My focus is on a ring, and giving the best individual performance I can.

Religion, by teaching man his relationship to God, gives the individual a sense of his own dignity and teaches him to respect himself by respecting his neighbors.

We believe that an individual must endeavor to assume the universalism inherent in the human condition.

Individual curiosity, often working without practical ends in mind, has always been a driving force for innovation.

An absolute condition of all successful living, whether for an individual or a nation, is the acceptance of death.

An uplifting sense of purpose is more than an impetus for individual accomplishment, it is also a necessary insurance policy against expediency and impropriety.

Probably the best nonsense poetry is produced gradually and accidentally, by communities rather than by individuals.

Individual records are nice to get, but before the season starts, you want to play to win the Stanley Cup!

In a democracy, society must recognize that the individual has rights which are guaranteed, and the individual must recognize that he has responsibilities which are not to be evaded.

We probably spend more time talking about individual players in our coaching sessions than anything else.

Liberty, whether natural, civil, or political, is the lawful power in the individual to exercise his corresponding rights. It is greatly favored in law.

I please myself with imagining a State at last which can afford to be just to all men, and to treat the individual with respect as a neighbor.

As it is with an individual, so it is with a nation. One must produce to have, or one will become a have-not.

Jump off. You are a protected individual. Do not fear.

Regeneration can come only through a change of heart in the individual.

The structure of human betterment cannot be built upon foundations of materialism or business, but upon the bedrock of individual character in free men and women.

It was the first rent in the holy image of my father, it was the first fissure in the columns that had upheld my childhood, which every individual must destroy before he can become himself.

I rarely use a stylist, and enjoy choosing my outfit on my own. If you know what suits your body and personality then your individual style emerges naturally.

I don't want people to think he [Eldridge Cleaver] is so important - our party is important because our party works for the people and no individual is important in our party, including myself.

Each individual is more or less dimly aware of his significance, is aware that he's something innately superior, something eternal--and lives, is obligated to live, in the moment and for the moment.

Every individual has a unique contribution.

The individual who is the servant of technique must be completely unconscious of himself.

On Wall Street, there is no "Wall Street"; there are individuals.

Art doesn't exist if you just do what you're told. It only exists as an exercise of individual taste and freedom.

Time is found in the calibration of the individual to the timing of a collective endeavour, the social grace that less clock-bound societies must practise.

The conflict between the need to belong to a group and the need to be seen as unique and individual is the dominant struggle of adolescence.

We insist that God must surely lead everyone as we believe He has led us. We refuse to allow God the freedom to deal with each of us as individuals. When we think like that, we are legalistic.

The individual problem is the world problem. Therefore let us return to the problem of individual perfection and the establishing of peace in the heart and in the mind of the individual.

Truth does not belong to an individual.

Freedom, liberty, individual rights, that idea of dealing with other people in a matter that is not initiating force against them, is critical to me.

We are not saved by nations or by churches or by families, but as individuals, through a personal interest in a personal Saviour.

The success of an entire advertising campaign may stand or fall on what is said in the headlines of the individual advertisements.

The image-managers encourage the individual to fashion himself into a smooth coin, negotiable in any market.

Over one's mind and over one's body the individual is sovereign.

The idea that an individual can find God is terribly self-centered. It is like a wave thinking it can find the sea.

The creative individual is particularly gifted in seeing the gap between what is and what could be.

The [nonprofit] sector enhances our creativity, enlivens our communities, nurtures individual responsibility, stirs life at the grassroots, and reminds us that we were born free.

The individual who has become a stranger to himself has lost the capacity for genuine self-renewal.

Time, to the nation as to the individual, is nothing absolute; its duration depends on the rate of thought and feeling.

Success is a personal matter - only you as an individual can tell if you did everything within your power to give your best effort

Ironically, the utterly unselective omnivore -- "I'm easy; I'll eat anything" -- can appear more socially sensitive than the individual who tries to eat in a way that is good for society.

We can convince ourselves to do things in conjunction with one another that we wouldn't have been able to do as an individual.

Follow your bliss. The heroic life is living the individual adventure.

What changes with fame is the perceptions of the individual rather than the individual.

As a director, I try not to implement a way for working, for every single actor, across the board. I try to work with each one, on an individual basis.

Unless you hit your television with a sledgehammer, you're not going to be able to be an individual.

All great cathedrals began their building by the placement of a single stone. The building unit of a great society is the individual.