Best 1663 quotes in «individual quotes» category

The fact is, society is made more hospitable by every individual who acts as if 'do unto others' really was a rule.

The first premise of all human history is, of course, the existence of living human individuals. Thus the first fact to be established is the physical organisation of these individuals and their consequent relation to the rest of nature.

[T]he first transactions of a nation, like those of an individual upon his first entrance into life make the deepest impression, and are to form the leading traits in its character.

The freedom of speech of private individuals includes the right to not agree, not to listen, and not to finance one's own antagonists.

The freedom to be an individual is the essence of America.

The Free Exercise Clause protects the individual from any coercive measure that encourages him toward one faith or creed, discourages him from another, or makes it prudent or desirable for him to select one and embrace it.

The function of the society is to cultivate the individual. It is not the function of the individual to support society.

The general will rules in society as the private will governs each separate individual.

The general tendency of evolution is from structure to function, from bondage to freedom of the individual elements.

The GLORY is in the TEAM, NOT the INDIVIDUAL.

The goal of Scientology is making the individual capable of living a better life in his own estimation and with his fellows and the playing of a better game.

The good ruler sublimates his needs as an individual to the service of the nation.

The greatest gift for an individual or a nation... was abhaya, fearlessness, not merely bodily courage but absence of fear from the mind.

The great hope of society is in individual character

The guiding principle that a policy of freedom for the individual is the only truly progressive policy remains as true today as it was in the nineteenth century.

The health care provisions are presumably for individuals. And whoever pays for them, whether it's paid by the individual, state, whatever, the value is an individually based value. It has nothing to do with employment.

the health of the planet is affected by the health of every individual on it !

The health of a church depends not merely on the creed which it professes, not even on the wisdom and holiness of a few great ecclesiastics, but on the faith and virtue of its individual members.

The height of stupidity is most clearly demonstrated by the individual who ridicules something he knows nothing about.

The history of every individual man should be a Bible.

The heterosexuality or homosexuality of many individuals is not an all-or-none proposition.

The higher culture an individual attains, the less field there is left for mockery and scorn.

The history of mankind is a perennial tragedy; for the highest ideals which the individual may project are ideals which he can never realize in social and collective terms.

The hope of any nation lies in the personal qualities of its individual members.

The history of science is science itself; the history of the individual, the individual.

The ignorant Insults of Individuals will not hinder me from doing my duty to my Art

The human psyche shows that each individual is an extension of all of existence.

The imagination is the workshop of the soul, where are shaped all the plans for individual achievement.

The human plagiarism which is most difficult to avoid, for individuals... is the plagiarism of ourselves.

The ideal society has yet to be built - one which balances nicely collective well-being and individual well-being.

The individual couldn't find any attention in Italy.

The individual cannot exist on his/her own and the collectivism should respect freedom of conscience. My struggle is about the freedom of thought.

The individual does actually carry on a double existence: one designed to serve his own purposes and another as a link in a chain, in which he serves against, or at any rate without, any volition of his own.

The individual is not only best qualified to provide his own personal defense, he is the only one qualified to do so: and his right to do so is guaranteed by the Constitution.

The individual or the group which organizes any society, however social its intentions or pretensions, arrogates an inordinate portion of social privilege to itself.

The individual will always be a minority. If a man is in a minority of one, we lock him up.

The individual can take initiatives without anybody's permission. Only individuals can think. Only the individual disregards his fears and commits himself exclusively to reforming the human environment.

The individual is not a killer, but the group is, and by identifying with it the individual is transformed into a killer.

The individual mirrors in his individuation the preordained social laws of exploitation, however mediated.

The individual soul should seek for an intimate union with the soul of the universe.

The individual source of the statistics may easily be the weakest link.

The individual who is the servant of technique must be completely unconscious of himself.

The integrative tendencies of the individual are incomparably more dangerous than his self-assertive tendencies.

The intelligence of an individual in not a fixed quantity.

The indestructible is one: it is each individual human being and, at the same time, it is common to all, hence the incomparably indivisible union that exists between human beings.

The individual act of obedience is the cornerstone not only of the strength of authoritarian society but also of its weakness.

The individual attention and care that I personally experienced and witnessed given to other players totally blew me away.

The individual disposition is already a factor in childhood; it is innate, and not acquired in the course of a life.

The individual produces an object and, by consuming it, returns to himself, but returns as a productive and self reproducing individual. Consumption thus appears as a moment of production.

...the individuals themselves, each in his own personal and sovereign right, entered into a compact with each other to produce a government: and this is the only mode in which governments have a right to arise, and the only principle on which they have a right to exist.