Best 1663 quotes in «individual quotes» category

In other words, the hidden subsidies [designed to help individuals seeking college degrees] are not helping those who most need help in getting a degree. It's also helping lenders, by providing an incentive to borrow. So why not take that $22.75 billion or so that we're already spending and putting it directly toward making public higher education free?

In philosophy an individual is becoming himself.

In proportion as the exploitation of one individual by another is put an end to, the exploitation of one nation by another will also be put an end to. In proportion as the antagonism between classes within the nation vanishes, the hostility of one nation to another will come to an end.

In science, moreover, the work of the individual is so bound up with that of his scientific predecessors and contemporaries that it appears almost as an impersonal product of his generation.

Inspiration, it is well recognized, rarely comes unless an individual has immersed himself in the subject. He must have a rich background of knowledge and experience in it.

Institutions provide procedures through which human conduct is patterned, compelled to go, in grooves deemed desirable by society. And this trick is performed by making these grooves appear to the individual as the only possible ones.

In terms of individuals who actually inspired me, very few of the academic people that I had access to had that power over me. Maybe it's simply because I wasn't that committed to geometry.

International Literacy Day is an occasion to celebrate the importance of literacy to individuals, communities and societies everywhere

In the American soul there is a lonely individual standing in a vast landscape.

In the development of mankind as a whole, just as in individuals, love alone acts as the civilizing factor in the sense that it brings a change from egoism to altruism.

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.

In the great mass of our people there are plenty individuals of intelligence from among whom leadership can be recruited.

In the highest government office, you have to be ready to bow out at any time, otherwise you are not a free individual anymore.

In the gametes of an individual hybrid the Anlagen for each individual parental character are found in all possible combinations but never in a single gamete the Anlagen for a pair of characters. Each combination occurs with approximately the same frequency.

In the history of the collective as in the history of the individual, everything depends on the development of consciousness.

In the long run no individual prospers beyond the measure of his faith.

In the midst of all this great variety of subjects, an individual cannot attain to perfection in each, because it is scarcely in his power to take in and comprehend the general theories of them.

In the role of Miss Munim, I had credibility as an individual.

In the society, where people are just parts in a larger machine, individuals are unable to develop fully.

In the United States, associations are established to promote the public safety, commerce, industry, morality, and religion. There is no end which the human will despairs of attaining through the combined power of individuals united into a society.

In the U.S. Senate, in the short term we need to reduce the tax burden on hard working individuals, families, and small businesses.

In the West, the basic economic and social unit is the individual; in Africa, it is the extended family or the collective.

I read a lot, but at the same time I'm not a particularly good or diligent or discriminating reader. I go through maybe close to a thousand or more books a year, but a lot of times I'll only read bits and pieces of any one individual text.

In this era of globalization we are witnessing struggles within individual states about what their identity and interests consist in.

I prefer, and it turns out to be the truth, that I always have in my movies an ensemble of actors, but not just one individual doing the whole movie.

I quickly learned that you don't have to be incarcerated by suffering, and that, in spite of the dysfunctional nature of your family, you are an individual in full possession of your life.

In those rare individual cases where women approach genius they also approach masculinity.

I please myself with imagining a State at last which can afford to be just to all men, and to treat the individual with respect as a neighbor.

Is it not a terrible thing to be forced by society to do things which all of us as individuals regard as abominable crimes?

I really didn't know much about the Libertarians. I knew they were for less government and more individual freedom. I liked that.

I REPRESENT THE INDIVIDUAL. I REPRESENT BEING HAPPY WITH WHO YOU ARE

I specialize in what the French call la petite histoire. I am interested in the individual thumbprint.

Isolating mechanisms are biological properties of individuals that prevent the interbreeding of populations that are actually or potentially sympatric.

Is not the very beginning of privilege, monopoly and industrial slavery this erecting of the ballot-box above the individual?

I still totally believe in individual rights and individual responsibility and in choosing to do good.

Is there one specific source that determines correct morality and everybody should follow that? Or should individuals come up with following that source or not depending on their situation?

I think being individual in the show business is what gives you life and longevity.

I support transitioning from the progressive tax to a flat tax system - both individual and corporate/business.

It all would have been much better if individuals saved for their own old age.

I suspect that most of the individuals who have religious faith are content with blind faith

I think I don't invest so much time in thinking about people's sexuality. I just take people as individuals.

I think if you talk to my colleagues, I was less than a fearsome individual.

I think it is in the nature of individuals and individual entities not to self-correct.

I think the nation as a whole has a role in making sure that each individual, each citizen maximizes one's potential.

I think it's an aggregation of all of the small acts that are really transformative. I think a group of small acts transform the individual. And maybe when the individual transforms, collectively we transform.

I think the isolation in China also has to do with people's memories being wiped out, collective memories as well as individual memories, by the fact that the recent history has been constantly rewritten and revised.

I think it's an individual thing. Your mountains are my molehills.

I think it's very desirable to be an individual and a free thinker.

I think one of the lessons we should have learned from what's happened with the current plan is that there is insurance coverage, but there is not really, many times, access to health care. If you have these high deductibles, there is every - there is a disincentive to get the policy, because you would have to pay another - I think the average of deductible policies on the individual market.

I think small groups have more collective wisdom than an individual.