Best 1663 quotes in «individual quotes» category

Singing your own songs is all about individual expression

Skype is for any individual who has a broadband Internet connection.

Small aids to individuals, large aid to masses.

Small business, right down to the individual can beat big, bureaucratic companies ten times out of ten.

Socialism and interventionism. Both have in common the goal of subordinating the individual unconditionally to the state.

Socialize the individual's surplus and you socialize his spirit and creativeness.

Social psychology has, as a rule, dealt with various phases of social experience from the psychological standpoint of individual experience.

Social psychology is especially interested in the effect which the social group has in the determination of the experience and conduct of the individual member.

Societies are composed of individuals and are good only insofar as they help individuals to realize their potentialities and to lead a happy and creative life.

Social media is the empowerment of the individual at the expense of the system.

Society flourishes when and only when its molecular unit, the family, flourishes. We know that lasting improvement comes only in the small increments produced by individuals adhering to the simple rules of life.

Society attacks early, when the individual is helpless.

Society cares for the individual only so far as he is profitable.

Society in its full sense . . . is never an entity separable from the individuals who compose it.

Socrates demonstrated long ago, that the truly free individual is free only to the extent of his own self-mastery.

Society evolves not by shouting each other down, but by the unique capacity of unique, individual human beings to comprehend each other.

Society is not just the product of its individual members; it is also the product of its constituent groups.

Society is a republic. When an individual tries to lift themselves above others, they are dragged down by the mass, either by ridicule or slander.

Society is only possible on these terms, that the individual finds therein a strengthening of his own ego and his own will.

Society's needs come before the individuals needs

Society today is so organised that every individual group has the power to disrupt it. How is their power to be channelled into constructive channels?

Software patents, in particular, are very ripe for abuse. The whole system encourages big corporations getting thousands and thousands of patents. Individuals almost never get them.

So I guess you could say Neel owes me a few favors, except that so many favors have passed between us now that they are no longer distinguishable as individual acts, just a bright haze of loyalty. OUr friendship is a nebula. (34)

So I should say that civilizations begin with religion and stoicism: they end with scepticism and unbelief, and the undisciplined pursuit of individual pleasure. A civilization is born stoic and dies epicurean.

Solitude is so necessary both for society and for the individual that when society fails to provide sufficient solitude to develop the inner life of the persons who compose it, they rebel and seek false solitudes.

Some of the most miserable people I know are some of the richest people in America, they are the most miserable individuals I've ever seen.

Some people are naturally thin and some people are naturally heavier. It doesn't mean that bigger is healthier, or much thinner is healthier, it's on an individual basis.

States in the world are like individuals in the state of nature. They are neither perfectly good nor are they controlled by law.

So often, literature about African people is conflated with literature about African politics, as if the state were somehow of greater import or interest than the individual.

So the conclusion that I reach, visa vie the individual and civilization, is this: Culture is not our friend. Culture is not your friend. It's not my friend. It's a very uncomfortable set of accommodations that have been hammered out over time for the convenience of institutions.

Spiritual gifts, to put it as simply as I know how, are the more or less concrete and tangible ways in which the Holy Spirit manifests his presence in and through the individual members of the church.

Statism – the subordination of the individual to the state - leads inevitably to the most hideous oppression.

Stillness within one individual can affect society beyond measure.

Stop making me feel good. If you are anti-Semitic, fine. If you don't like me personally, fine. But deal with me as an individual, not as a Jew.

Stories are the secret reservoir of values: change the stories individuals and nations live by and tell themselves, and you change the individuals and nations.

Success is not success in an individual endeavor. Success is simply to practice the dharma impeccably.

Strong leaders don't plead with individuals to perform.

Success depends in a very large measure upon individual initiative and exertion, and cannot be achieved except by a dint of hard work.

Style is such a personal thing; it's your way to be an individual.

Superiority and inferiority are individual, not racial or national.

Style is a very personal thing and women should develop their own individual look.

Survivor species tend to have huge populations, so they can afford to lose many individuals and still survive as a species. They also tend to be small. If you're small, you need less food - which is great in a situation where famine is everywhere.

Taxes should be proportioned to what may be annually spared by the individual.

Taxation being a burthen, must needs weigh lightest on each individual, when it bears upon all alike.

Synchronistic events constitute moments in which a 'cosmic' or 'greater' meaning becomes gradually conscious in an individual; generally it is a shaking experience.

Synergy: The combined effect of individuals in collaboration that exceeds the sum of their individual effects.

Tennis is an individual sport, and I am quite a self-conscious person.

Technology can also be used so that private individuals will have access to the way centralized decisions are being made.

That living specimen of gall and hatred, that individual.

That nonviolence which only an individual can use is not of much use in terms of society.