Best 1663 quotes in «individual quotes» category

Perhaps even more than constituted authority, it is social uniformity and sameness that harass the individual most.

Perhaps an individual must consider his own death to be the final phenomenon of nature.

Personal freedom has grown greatly within China, and that will provoke ever more points of conflict between the individual and state.

Personalization is the automatic tailoring of sites and messages to the individuals viewing them, so that we can feel that somewhere there's a piece of software that loves us for who we are.

Personally, I believe there's a limitation to how much politics can change the world--but there's no limitation to how much individuals can change the world.

Persons not habituated to reason often argue absurdly, because, from particular instances, they deduce general conclusions, and extend the result of their limited experience of individuals indiscriminately to whole classes.

Photojournalism is photography with more story telling. A single image can be amazing and dramatic. I started out shooting individual images, but I found I wanted to have more of a voice: to actually say something. I wanted to do something more personal over a long period of time, with more authorship.

Picture in your mind the able, earnest, useful person you desire to be, and the thought you hold is hourly transforming you into that particular individual you so admire

Pioneering is the work of individuals.

Poetry’s medium is the individual chest and throat and mouth of whoever undertakes to say the poem.

Politicians don't like empowered individuals.

Politics and the affairs of State are dissociated from the orbit of the individual, and in so far as they cannot be repossessed as his living private property they must be rendered impotent.

Political violence is organized violence on the top which creates individual violence at the bottom.

Politics has become very unpredictable, making things so very difficult for individuals and also for companies.

Politics is concerned with herds rather than with individuals, and the passions which are important in politics are, therefore, those in which the various members of a given herd can feel alike.

Pornography is a theatre of types, never of individuals.

Popular music is all about traveling at the speed of you and elevating the individual as the highest thing in the world.

Possessing a correct interpretation of each individual doctrine is not sufficient; we must also learn to hold each doctrine in harmony with the others.

Possessions of this world have not been for the exclusive use by such or such category of individuals.

President Ahmadinejad is not the most powerful individual. At the same time, he is reflecting Iranian views right now, so it's difficult to neglect him.And in the context of domestic U.S. politics, it's very difficult to ignore him.

Principles have a way of enduring, as do the few irreducible individuals who maintain allegiance to them.

Prison continues, on those who are entrusted to it, a work begun elsewhere, which the whole of society pursues on each individual through innumerable mechanisms of discipline.

Private equity has been the purview of super wealthy individuals and institutions.

Probably the best nonsense poetry is produced gradually and accidentally, by communities rather than by individuals.

Private property creates for the individual a sphere in which he is free of the state. It sets limits to the operation of the authoritarian will.

Private enterprise manages better all that to which it is equal. Anarchism declares that private enterprise, whether individual or cooperative, is equal to all the undertakings of society.

Progress is the sum of small victories won by individual human beings.

Prosperity is very liable to bring pride among the other goods with which it endows an individual; it is then that prosperity costs too dear.

Properly speaking, should any individual ever have exact, clear knowledge of his own core consciousness?" "I wouldn't know," I said. "Nor would we," said the scientists.

Proverbs, words, and grammar inflections convey the public sense with more purity and precision, than the wisest individual.

Public opinion is the atmosphere of society, without which the forces of the individual would collapse, and all the institutions of society fly into atoms.

Racism is so extreme and so pervasive in our American society that no black individual lives in an atmosphere of freedom.

Psychology is the science of psychic states both as to content and form, regarded from an objective standpoint, and brought in relation to the living corporeal individual.

Races don't fall in love, genders don't fall in love: Individuals fall in love. We all should be free to marry the person that we love.

Real change in society must start from individual initiative.

Regeneration can come only through a change of heart in the individual.

Recognition of the modes of existence of technical objects must be the result of philosophic consideration; what philosophy has to achieve in this respect is analogous to what the abolition of slavery achieved in affirming the worth of the individual human being.

Relations between States, as between individuals, must be regulated not by armed force, but in accordance with...truth, justice and vigorous and sincere co-operation.

Relationships are never static. They have to evolve over time as the individuals in them change.

Reflective abstraction, however, is based not on individual actions but on coordinated actions.

Religion and nationalism, as well as any custom and any belief however absurd and degrading, if it only connects the individual with others, are refuges from what man most dreads: isolation.

Religion is the worst thing that ever happened to mankind - the ironic part is that it's presented as a good thing, and its effect is absolutely catastrophic to individuals and to societies.

Religion is what the individual does with his own solitariness. Thus religion is solitariness; and if you are never solitary, you are never religious.

Revenues should be increased not by increasing the tax rates on the individual but by building a bigger economy for everybody.

Responsibility is a unique concept. It can only reside and inhere in a single individual. You may share it with others, but your portion is not diminished. You may delegate it, but it is still with you. You may disclaim it, but you cannot divest yourself of it. If responsibility is rightfully yours, no evasion, or ignorance or passing the blame can shift the burden to someone else. Unless you can point your finger at the man who is responsible when something goes wrong, then you have never had anyone really responsible.

Revolutions are the periods of history when individuals count most.

Revolution will free society of its afflictions, while science will free the individual of his.

RZA is one of the most unique individuals and rap artists that I have worked with.

Right action tends to be defined in terms of general individual rights and standards that have been critically examined and agreed upon by the whole society.

Sad but true: individual intelligence probably peaked in the Upper Paleolithic, and we have been self-domesticated creatures ever since