Best 1663 quotes in «individual quotes» category

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

Of course, individuals vary greatly within each racial group and should be treated as such.

Of course quality is important but is it not the quality of an individual's originality that is most important?

Of necessity, the autobiographical self is not just about one individual but about all the others that an individual interacts with. Of necessity, it incorporates the culture in which the interactions took place.

Omens are the individual language in which God talks to you. My omens are not your omens.

On a personal level, I don't have many individual achievements.

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.

Once you admit that the individual is merely a means to serve the ends of the higher entity called society or the nation, most of those features of totalitarianism which horrify us follow of necessity

Once you spend time with [the afflicted], you start recognizing them as individuals, as opposed to lumping them in with everybody else who might have those symptoms.

One feels the insignificance of the individual, and it makes one happy.

One logical consequence of this New Economy composed of big brands and entrepreneurial groups is that the unit of production is no longer a particular, identical product. The unit of production is the creative individual.

One nation is to another what one individual is to another; with this melancholy distinction perhaps, that the former with fewer of the benevolent emotions than the latter, are under fewer restraints also from taking undue advantage of the indiscretions of each other.

One of my big beliefs about Washington is that we highly overstate the power of individuals and highly underrate seeing Washington as a system, in general, but, in particular, we highly underrate the power of Congress.

One of the basic philosophical tenets of conservatism - which says that the more power devolves from the federal government to the states, the greater individual freedom grows - is just flatly contradicted by crucial junctures in the country's life, most conspicuously in the 1860s and 1960s, when it's been the federal government that's interceded against the states to secure individual freedom.

One of the greatest perils to an extensive republic is the disregard of individual rights.

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.

One of the great themes in American literature is the individual's confrontation with the vast open spaces of the continent.

One of the methods of manipulation is to inoculate individuals with the bourgeois appetite for personal success.

One of the most difficult things in life for any individual or business is to accept and adopt change.

One senses, in all autobiography, a straining toward perfection, perfection of a kind that connects the individual with a cosmic pattern which, because it is perfect in itself, verifies that individuals own potential perfection.

Only an ethical movement can rescue us from barbarism, and the ethical comes into existence only in individuals.

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

One who sees the Supersoul accompanying the individual soul in all bodies and who understands that neither the soul nor the Supersoul is ever destroyed, actually sees.

Only as an individual can man become a philosopher.

Only individuals have a sense of responsibility.

One wants permissive individuals who do not have a compelling need to reassure themselves that they are leaders.

Only a small part of scientific progress has resulted from planned search for specific objectives. A much more important part has been made possible by the freedom of the individual to follow his own curiosity.

Only in community with others has each individual the means of cultivating his gifts in all directions; only in the community, therefore, is personal freedom possible.

Only a few individuals succeed in throwing off mythology in a time of a certain intellectual supremacy--the mass never frees itself.

Only the subject's individual consciousness can testify for the unwitnessed acts, and there is no act more deprived of external testimony than the act of knowing.

Only when you are aware of the uniqueness of everyones individual body will you begin to have a sense of your own self-worth.

Originality exists in every individual because each of us differs from the others. We are all primary numbers divisible only by ourselves.

On the other hand, ethnic psychology must always come to the assistance of individual psychology, when the developmental forms of the complex mental processes are in question.

Our individual wholeness includes a masculine and a feminine side, which are slowly (or not so slowly) wrung out of us, depending on which gender you are.

Our efforts must aim at restoring hope, righting wrongs, maintaining commitments, and thus promoting the well-being of individuals and of peoples.

Our highest endeavour must be to develop individuals who are able out of their own initiative to impart purpose & direction to their lives.

Our individual fates are linked our futures intertwined

Our lives are bound by physical limits, familial ties, political conditions, and geographical restrictions. Individual freedom takes us beyond them all.

Our lives, our stories, flowed into one another's, were no longer our own, individual, discrete.

Our national myths often exaggerate the role of the individual heroes and understate the importance of collective effort.

Our primordial purpose is to respond to the impulsion from within to solve the mystery of our individual existence, to find and be the authentic Self that is, has been and ever shall be.

Our prosperity as a nation depends upon the personal financial prosperity of each of us as individuals.

Our vanity makes us exaggerate the importance of human life; the individual is nothing; Nature cares only for the species.

Our thoughts are to the individual as our art is to the community.

Our very essence is Absolute Consciousness; without an I, without the consciousness of every individual, nothing really exists.

Outlook 2003 did create the idea of search folders and the whole Longhorn philosophy. You can see it at work in search folders, where instead of having to drop things into individual folders, and things exist only in one folder, you create these search folders and you have the criteria for the search folder.

Over-commercialization and its resulting restrictions and limitations can be very damaging and distorting to the inherent nature of the individual. I did not deliberately abandon my fans, nor did I deliberately abandon any responsibilities.

...our species is one, and each of the individuals who compose it are entitled to equal moral consideration.

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

Particular individuals do not recur, but their building blocks do.