The Individual Quotes

Free enterprise, individual opportunity, limited government. They made America great; only they can keep America strong.

The individual or the group which organizes any society, however social its intentions or pretensions, arrogates an inordinate portion of social privilege to itself.

The assumption that individuals act objectively in accordance with purely mathematical dictates to maximize their gain or utility cannot be sustained by empirical observation.

When one individual writer sings her song of beauty, she changes the lives of a million others.

Salvation is an individual relationship with God. I've always considered myself to be a devotional poet, and I consider myself to be a devotional novelist.

I'm a staunch civil libertarian; I really believe that the individual is more important than any societal value.

Genes are very important at the individual level but these differences tend to cancel at the national level.

Loving and appreciating each individual, including ourselves, as the showing forth of the One Creative Principle, takes a great deal of humility and this includes sharing.

The basis of action on love, the brotherhood of all men, the value of the individual... the humility of the spirit.

I don't believe in outing people. It's up to the individual, but there's nothing wrong putting the pressure on.

Our view is that individuals and families can govern their lives better than bureaucrats.

The Bible says that governments can do things that I'm not supposed to do as an individual. God has not put the law in my hands. He's put the law in the government's hands.

There's never going to be peace in the world until there's peace in nations. There's never going to be peace in nations till there's peace in communities and families and in individual lives.

I realized in order to be involved in health policy, you really had to understand more than the individual patient that we as physicians, are taught to think about.

I adore being hitched. It's so extraordinary to discover one unique individual you need to irritate for whatever remains of your life.

I think people have come to know me, and I don't deviate too much as an individual. What you see is what you get.

Neither individuals nor corporations have any right to come into court and ask that the clock of history be stopped, or turned back.

Morals - all correct moral laws - derive from the instinct to survive. Moral behavior is survival behavior above the individual level.

With a camera, one has to love individual cases.

Under the First Amendment's prohibition of the establishment of religion, the Court has steadily made religion a matter for the private individual by driving it out of the public arena.

The masses cannot ultimately be free: only the individual can be.

We talk a lot about individual rights, but in fact Americans are very willing to give up our individual rights if it means our property values will be protected, and so on.

I always figure from the cradle to the grave, we all have our individual journeys, and maybe my journey was a positive one and I accomplished certain things without stepping on too many toes.

You gotta be careful with message movies. People say "What do you want people to take away from it?" I always say its totally individual.

The core of the Marxist critique of capitalism is that although the individual capitalist is rational (as liberals assume), the capitalist system itself is irrational.

The emblem of equal rights. It means free hands, free lips, self- government, and the sovereignty of the individual.

As economists have long noted, the puzzle is not that so few people vote, it's that so many do. After all, no individual's vote has ever tipped the balance in a presidential election.

The link between rational individual behavior and collectively desirable outcomes is extremely tenuous.

It seems to me that before a man tries to express anything to the world he must recognize in himself an individual, a new one, very distinct from others.

"The way of Cain" refers to any individual who attempts to approach God on his or her own terms rather than on God's terms.

In general, 'the market' is smarter than the smartest of its individual participants.

We should never lose sight of the very close link between individual giving and the formation of philanthropic traditions.

Individual differences in testosterone level predict very little about differences in aggression.

Faith in your own powers and confidence in your individual methods are essential to success.

Every individual should have a purpose in life which is worthy of intense effort-and constantly work toward the definite goal ahead.

The natural wish and impetus to feel oneself to be an individual, to be special, includes standing out more than anyone else.

Nationality was the most pernicious, depersonalizing, homogenizing label that could ever be attached to the human individual.

When people feel their insignificance as individual persons, they also suffer an undermining of their sense of human responsibility.

There is no meaningful yes unless the individual could also have said no.

Physical courage in whatever scene ... seems to hinge on whether the individual can feel he is fighting for others as well as himself.

Opinion polls consistently show that only about 5 percent of blacks have sensible political opinions, i.e. support the free market, individual liberty, and the end of welfare and affirmative action.

Until relatively recently, law enforcement's ability to determine an individual's location and track their movements was largely limited to natural human powers of observation.

The purpose of America is to unleash the full talent and genius of every individual.

It should be the right of the individual to decide whether he wants to belong to a union.

And it never, ever was interpreted that the Second Amendment meant individual's right to bear arms

Morality is not defined and cannot be defined by individual choice.

There's no thought given to the individual because there aren't any individuals in socialism; everybody's the same.

I'm just a huge fan of Joe Carnahan. He's such a charismatic individual and somebody that just applies every part of himself to the project he's in.

Education has to be welcomed as a Spiritual Practice for the establishment of Peace in the individual heart as well as in society including the human commonwealth.

Ultimately, as individuals we each have to ask ourselves to be courageous and apply certain principles.