The Individual Quotes

Laws and systems of polity always begin by recognizing the relations they find already existing between individuals.

The feeling of a direct responsibility of the individual to God is almost wholly a creation of Protestantism.

When you choose to become part of a team, you cease to exist as an individual.

When you see a successful individual, a champion, you can be very sure that you are looking at an individual who pays great attention to the perfection of minor details.

No individual should take the blame for a loss, because no individual should get the credit for a victory.

Generally speaking, individual performances don't win basketball games

One of the greatest motivating factors is the pat on the back, although with some individuals, you have to make the pat a little lower or a little harder.

We are exceptional not because of who we are but because of what we do and how we put the ideals of human dignity, individual freedom, and liberty under law into action.

I think morality is so individual and personal, and people draw their own lines of what that means for them.

America is very much about individual happiness, the right to expression, self-determination. In America you do need to point to harm befalls victims before you can limit someone else's rights.

Mel Gibson is a tremendously talented creative individual who, unfortunately, is also a conflicted personality. He himself would say that.

I see bodies as individual things.

That one individual should awaken in another memories that belong to still a third is an obvious paradox.

I don't think esthetic schools are important. What is important is the use that is made of them, or whatever the individual writer does.

Life appears in a vast variety and innumerable succession of individual forms, since the most salient character of the universe is just that it ceaselessly gives birth to living individuals.

There is what I would call the hero journey, the night sea journey, the hero quest, where the individual is going to bring forth in his life something that was never beheld before.

We are not a monolithic group of individuals, not every single person believes the exact same thing.

Only the individual knows to what God is calling him.

Let the Saints remember that great things depend on their individual exertion, and that they are called to be co-workers with us and the Holy Spirit in accomplishing the great work of the last days

For the Absolute, as we now know, all life is individual, but is individual as expressing a meaning.

As a Christian, as an individual, as a doctor, I am absolutely opposed to the death penalty.

What is true of the individual will be true of the whole family; what is true of the family will be true of the community, and of the state.

Our search for certainty rests in our attempts at understanding the history of all individual selves and all civilizations. Beyond that, there is only awe.

[If homes belongs to couples or roommates]: I think homes should reflect the individuals and their individual taste rather than someone else's.

As a filmmaker, I want to be known as a pan-African filmmaker and this is because I think that we have more to gain as Africans than as individual countries.

The injustice done to an individual is sometimes of service to the public.

I'd say that individuals are respected who stick to their convictions instead of doing whatever happens to be in fashion.

Once an individual is given a taste of the gratification that comes from triumph, and the tools to bring it about, they will spend a lifetime in its ongoing pursuit.

I grew up with a good set of values, but it was never too strict. I was always encouraged to be a free-thinking individual.

Every artist's world is an individual experience and no one thing can prepare you. You have to go in and go where those roles lead you - just allow it to happen and follow your path.

I think if you talk to my colleagues, I was less than a fearsome individual.

God is each truly and exalted thing, therefore the individual himself to the highest degree. But are not nature and the world individuals?

When I was singing "King of the Mountain," it was a pivotal point in the show. That's the song that took us from this concert setting of individual songs into the theatrical narrative piece.

if you are perfectly willing to shock an individual verbally, the next thing you will be doing is to shock him practically.

All working, practical political systems, even those professing to originate in moral grandeur, are based upon and operate by contempt of human life and the individual fate.

I build the individual modules to meet a demand. If I need the music to change direction, I want to have the tools to be able to do that.

There's an individual feminism, if you will, that you make your own choices.

Yes, there are lots of individual exceptions. But no one has ever done a study about voting intention without ascertaining that the biggest determining factor is your income and your wealth.

John Cryan and I worked together at UBS, and I think John is one smart, hardworking individual, and I wouldn't bet against John. I wish him well.

We pick on retail, I think, because each individual has experience with retail. It is easy to talk about.

One's sanctions for truth and goodness are established largely by individual preferences.

I believe in the God-given genius of certain individuals, and I value a society that makes their existence possible.

When you get into individual characters certainly there's been things that have been updated .

Once war consisted of individual combats between armed men. Later it was waged between lines of men in opposing trenches. Now it is organized slaughter of whole populations.

Of all the groups that sometimes claim to own your life, family is the hardest to defend your individual sovereignty from.

Blaming something else makes that something else cause; and as that cause takes on power, the individual in the same act loses control and becomes effect.

No society that places the individual above itself will survive; but neither will any society that places the individual below itself.

Perhaps teachers must be good actors where lessons are concerned, but in life outside the class, we mustn't hide from our pupils our individual spirits.

If you're a large corporation, you can afford to pay the money to register patents, but if you're an individual like me, you can't.

It seems to me that if you were to take almost any half-century in history, you'd find a grand societal tug-of-war between the community and the individual.