Best 1663 quotes in «individual quotes» category

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.

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

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.

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

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

Salvation is an individual relationship with God. I've always considered myself to be a devotional poet, and I consider myself to be a devotional novelist.

Science cannot describe individuals, but only types. If human societies cannot be classified, they must remain inaccessible to scientific description.

Scoutmasters deal with the individual boy rather than with the mass.

Self-knowledge is the basis of jeet kune do because it is effective not only for the individual's martial art but also for his life as a human being.

Sensuality is the total mobilization of the senses: an individual observes his partner intently, straining to catch every sound.

Sexiness is about being an individual and having conviction about what that is.

She thought about him all the time - not so much about Doug the individual, but rather about the nature of love, and the shock of learning how quickly it could disappear.

Since, therefore, individuals as well as the public are so indebted to these writers for the benefits they enjoy, I think them not only entitled to the honour of palms and crowns, but even to be numbered among the gods.

Since the State necessarily lives by the compulsory confiscation of private capital, and since its expansion necessarily involves ever-greater incursions on private individuals and private enterprise, we must assert that the state is profoundly and inherently anti-capitalist .

Sin defies God, utterly corrupts each individual, corrodes all social relationships, and issues in death.

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.

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?

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

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)

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 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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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

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.