Best 1663 quotes in «individual quotes» category

The love for our native land strengthens our individual and national character.

The lowest stage of humanity is experienced when the individual must labour for a small pittance of wages from others.

The marketplace obliges men, whether they will or not, in pursuing their own selfish interests, to connect the general good with their own individual success.

The masses don't shed their blood for the benefit of a few individuals.

The Marine Corps went from 15,000, which its strength was when I was Commandant, to approximately 400,000 when I retired, and more than that afterward, without losing its individual characteristics. It was the same Marine Corps. It was not different in any respect.

The mental imagery involved with pianistic tactilia is not related to the striking of individual keys but rather to the rites of passage between notes.

The message of individual liberty and peace is contagious.

The merit of a democratic regime rests on one's continual willingness to exchange views, and to compete on the basis of individual merit and capacities.

The moment you have protected an individual, you have protected society.

The more connected that individual is to an issue they care about, the higher probability there is they will stay involved over a longer period of time.

The more bullets flying, the less accurate each individual slug has to be.

The more I wrote, the more I became a human being. The writing may have seemed monstrous (to some) for it was a violation, but I became a more human individual because of it. I was getting the poison out of my system.

The more the state "plans" the more difficult planning becomes for the individual.

The most basic principle to being a free American is the notion that we as individuals are responsible for our own lives and decisions

The most DIFFICULT thing for individuals to do when they become part of a team is to sacrifice, it is much EASIER to be selfish.

The most important factor for the development of the individual is the structure and the values of the society into which he was born.

The most important phase of living with a person: the respect for that person as an individual.

The myth is a surviving fragment of the psychic life of the infancy of the race whilst the dream is the myth of the individual.

The necessity of every one paying in his own labor for what he consumes, affords the only legitimate and effectual check to excessive luxury, which has so often ruined individuals, states and empires; and which has now brought almost universal bankruptcy upon us.

The nation is only as strong as the collective strength of its individuals.

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

The mystics are the only ones who have gained a glimpse into what is possible when this same capacity [for creation] is used primarily in the service of the individual himself instead of for the creation of art.

The number of individuals employed under the Constitution of the United States will be much smaller than the number employed under the particular States.

The Nobel Prize confers on an individual an authority which in economics no man ought to possess.

The North has no interest in the particular Negro, but talks of justice for the whole. The South has not interest, and pretends none, in the mass of Negroes but is very much concerned about the individual.

The object of the state is always the same: to limit the individual, to tame him, to subordinate him, to subjugate him.

The Nordic welfare model is in many aspects a good model but it needs more of a choice for individuals.

The objective of US authorities was to terminate their existence as peoples - not as random individuals. This is the very definition of modern genocide.

The only fruitful promise of which the life of any individual or any nation can be possessed, is a promise determined by an ideal.

The only conception of freedom I can have is that of the prisoner or the individual in the midst of the State. The only one I know is freedom of thought and action.

The only freedom supposed to be left to the masses is that of grazing on the ration of simulacra the system distributes to each individual.

The only real life is the collective life of the race; individual life has no existence except as an abstraction.

The organization cannot trust the individual; the individual must trust the organization.

The penal code deals with things like theft, false testimony, adultery, fornication, etc. and then there's the law of the state, the law of the individual and the law of the public.

The patrol system leads each boy to see that he has some individual responsibility for the good of his patrol.

The point I am making is that in the more primitive forms of society the individual is merely a unit; in more developed forms of society he is an independent personality.

The poison by which the weaker nature is destroyed is strengthening to the strong individual and he does not call it poison.

The popularity of an individual in life often only manifests itself in death.

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

The printing press had a very liberatory effect that meant individuals - small groups could produce radical pamphlets - could use it for organizing.

The press is like any business. Its a group of really intelligent individuals that ends up being one slathering, one-eyed, drooling monster.

The primal principle of democracy is the worth and dignity of the individual.

The psychopathology of the masses is rooted in the psychology of the individual

The progress from an absolute to a limited monarchy, from a limited monarchy to a democracy, is a progress toward a true respect for the individual.

The productivity of social cooperation surpasses in every respect the sum total of the production of isolated individuals.

The psychic development of the individual is a short repetition of the course of development of the race.

The public totally discounts low-probability high-consequence events. The individual says, it's not going to be this plane, this bus, this time.

The progression of emancipation of any class usually, if not always, takes place through the efforts of individuals of that class.

There are as many different religions as there are individuals.

The range of choice open to the individual is not the decisive factor in determining the degree of human freedom, but what can be chosen and what is chosen by the individual.