The Individual Quotes

A business enterprise must continue beyond the lifetime of the individual or of the generation to be capable of producing its contributions to economy and to society.

No society can function as a society, unless it gives the individual member social status and function, and unless the decisive social power is legitimate.

You're asking the government to control individual morality. This is a government that can't buy a toilet seat for under $600.

Capitalism is the only economic system compatible with free individuals

[General James Mattis] a very talented individual. He's - has a personal library of about 10,000 books and he's read most of them on military history and strategy and so forth.

The new century will see unimaginable levels of wastefulness and extravagance, but it will also be an age in which the individual human being acquires a true and universally recognised value.

The systems perspective tells us that we must look beyond individual mistakes or bad luck to understand important problems.

I never think of poetry or the poetry scene, only separate poems written by individuals.

Life with God is an individual matter, and general formulas do not easily apply.

I think cinema is the memory and the imagination of the country. Take the memory and imagination out of an individual, and he stops being an individual. I think its the same thing for a country.

Society does not exist for itself, but for the individual; and man goes into it, not to lose, but to find himself.

Give the individual the power to be a producer as well as a consumer.

I saw the charter as an expression of my long-held view that the subject of law must be the individual human being; the law must permit the individual to fulfil himself or herself to the utmost.

More than what we say or do, the way we are expresses what we think it means to be alive. So the articulate parent is less a telling than a listening individual.

Notice that "I" is at the center of the word "ethical." There is no "they." Achieving the ethics of excellence is our individual assignment.

The problem in modern America is not that an individual can't make a difference, but that nearly all of us are too distracted to even consider trying.

The individual will always be a minority. If a man is in a minority of one, we lock him up.

Most black families have roots, whether Christian, Muslim or other religions, and that journey is unique for each individual.

Harmelody allows everybody to be an individual who does not have to imitate anybody else.

Individual human beings are all tools, that the others use to help us all survive.” “That’s a lie.” “No. It’s just a half truth. You can worry about the other half after we win this war.

Talent is hereditary; it may be the common possession of a whole family (eg, the Bach family); genius is not transmitted; it is never diffused, but is strictly individual.

Initiative can neither be created nor delegated. It can only spring from the self-determining individual, who decides that the wisdom of others is not always better than his own.

on first priority in design consideration is the full realization of individual potential in order to reach the second derivative full realization for all individuals

Since I was little, it was instilled in me to conserve water. In terms of what can you do as an individual, it's an easy issue to get behind.

For me the fascination with biography is the life of the individual in the context of history.

A biography is never a biography of one person, of course, but the individual life of your protagonist will never conform. It will always bang up against history.

I don't know who took what. That is pretty private with an individual.

To me, each individual is far more valuable than society as a whole.

Real love makes you more of an individual. It does not efface your individuality, it gives you individuality. Real love is very respectful.

Humanity will never be religious unless all organized religions disappear and religion becomes an individual commitment towards existence.

All novels are about certain minorities: the individual is a minority.

An individual man is a fruit which it cost all the foregoing ages to form and ripen. He is strong, not to do, but to live; not in his arms, but in his heart; not as an agent, but as a fact.

If the whole of history is in one man, it is all to be explained from individual experience.

In the history of the individual is always an account of his condition, and he knows himself to be a party to his present estate.

There is nothing settled in manners, but the laws of behavior yield to the energy of the individual.

No society can ever be so large as one man.

An individual is an encloser. Time and space, liberty and necessity, truth and thought, are left at large no longer.

Washington, where an insignificant individual may trespass on a nation's time.

There is no prosperity, trade, art, city, or great material wealth of any kind, but if you trace it home, you will find it rooted in a thought of some individual man.

We shouldn't be fearful of freedom, we shouldn't be fearful of individual liberty.

We must always embrace individual liberty and enforce the constitutional rights of all Americans-rich and poor, immigrant and native, black and white.

What is immoral for an individual to do, is immoral for a government to do

Each component of the organism, like the individual in the social body, possesses the capacity for enjoyment of the self through sharing with others.

Fame and money are gifts given to us only after we have gifted the world with our best, our lonely, our individual truths.

You work with each individual actor as you perceive their needs to be. It's something that you've figured out in the weeks of pre-production.

At best, I think of a director as a magnet. You get all the metal fillings in all the individual actors and crew, and get those filings moving toward your magnetic direction.

The childhood of the individual and the race is full of fears, and panic-stricken attempts to avert what is feared by placating the gods with painful sacrifices.

Donald Trump has shown that he will essentially attack individuals, make Second Amendment jokes.

Silicon Valley tends to believe in the individual who creates a small group and does something big.

It is impossible to dissociate an individual from the environment of which he is a part. No story of achievement should ever be removed from its broader social context.