Best 1663 quotes in «individual quotes» category

I think the Ronald Reagan tax reform proposals are a step toward distributive justice. They redistribute the tax burden more equitably and more progressively among individuals and call upon business to carry a somewhat larger proportion of the total tax load. Both of these are steps toward equity and distributive justice.

I think you can find yourself in life perhaps not really being the master of your own life and it is within your own will and tenacity whether you switch the roles or not. So I think it has more to do with that, a person's individual will to be master or servant. I've been both in my own life and I prefer the former.

It is a brave thing to have courage to be an individual; it is also, perhaps, a lonely thing. But it is better than not being an individual, which is to be nobody at all.

It is an old adage that honesty is the best policy-this applies to public as well as private life-to States as well as individuals.

[It is a] well-known fact that the likely contacts of two individuals who are closely acquainted tend to be more overlapping than those of two arbitrarily selected individuals.

It is because nations tend towards stupidity and baseness that mankind moves so slowly; it is because individuals have a capacity for better things that it moves at all.

It is curious that while one's education is the part of one's life over the conditions of which one has least individual control, the results of it are held to brand one irrevocably.

It is difficult for the isolated individual to work himself out of the immaturity which has become almost natural for him.

It is easier to discover a deficiency in individuals, in states, and in Providence, than to see their real import and value.

It is essential to resist the depiction of history as the work of heroic individuals

It is from among such individuals that all human failures spring.

It is hard to be an individual in Japan.

It is hard to utter common notions in an individual way.

It is in the power of every individual to do that which the community as a whole is powerless to effect.

It is just a thing. Whether it is good or bad depends what you do with it. If you don't like what you are doing with it then it is simply a reflection of what you are as an individual, an organisation or a society and that is what you have to fix.

It is my ambition to be, as a private individual, abolished and voided from history, leaving it markless.

It is not an individual act, architecture. You have to consider your client. Only out of that can you produce great architecture. You cannot work in the abstract

It is not only individuals peoples too cannot live merely for themselves. The whole world must be redeemed.

It is not the individual's right to buy that is being protected. Rather, it is the seller's right to manage the individual.

It is not the most lovable individuals who stand more in need of love, but the most unlovable

It isn't myself that's important in this transaction apparently; the individual doesn't count much in the situation...all of us are more or less pawns. We're moved about like chessmen by circumstances over which we have no control.

It is obvious that different individuals require different things to live good, healthy, and virtuous lives.

It is one thing to be well-read on a subject; it is quite another to be part of the subject itself. It is an unfortunate fact that there are many individuals who make magick there life without making their life magick.

It is only possible through the fact that sympathy for the general life and suffering of mankind is very weakly developed in the individual.

It is only when the individual is good that society will progress. When the society and the nation is based on the observance of human values.

It is only through fiction and the dimension of the imaginary that we can learn something real about individual experience. Any other approach is bound to be general and abstract.

It is our collective and individual responsibility to preserve and tend to the environment in which we all live.

It is rather a problem of how to secure the best use of resources known to any of the members of society, for ends whose relative importance only those individuals know.

It is right, or absolute right, that an individual should develop the powers that are in him. He may be said to have a "natural right" to become what he is capable of becoming. This is his only natural right.

It is so often true that whether a person carries with him an atmosphere of gloom and depression or one of confidence and courage depends on his individual outlook.

It is the gift of seeing the life around them clearly and vividly, as something that is exciting in its own right. It is an innate gift, varying in intensity with the individual's temperament and environment.

It is true of the Nation, as of the individual, that the greatest doer must also be a great dreamer.

It is through chance that, from among the various individuals of which each of us is composed, one emerges rather than another.

It is trust, but it is also courage - that you can leave an individual to his own devices and say "explore and experiment" and think, "It's okay, I'll see what it sounds like when I come back.

It is vain to talk of the interest of the community, without understanding what is the interest of the individual

It is with nations as it is with individuals. A book of history is a book of sermons.

It must be remembered that even though the ego is the individual's inaccurate concept of him- or herself, it seems to be what the person is.

It might be something as simple as saying the right word to the right person at the right time-and that could change the course of history. You never really know. But the whole thing is to work at the process of being in sync with the universe, so that everything will align at the proper time so that you can deliver that which is your life mission. And that's why we're here as individuals. And then there's our contribution to the collective. It makes a lot of sense, doesn't it?

I took individual photographs of Annie Liebovitz, I kept taking her picture.

It requires two indiscreet persons to institute a quarrel; one individual cannot quarrel alone.

I truly believe that we cannot come to a place of reconciliation until there is individual repentance and corporate repentance.

It's different for each individual. It's different when you talk about homosexuality. It's different when you talk about a malady like deafness. Everybody might have a different response to that and that's what makes it an interesting subject to throw in a movie.

It's entirely possible to function as a free-thinking individual without succumbing to narcissism. This can be tricky at times, I suppose, but then so can the tango - particularly if you're dancing alone.

It should go without saying that even the most narrowly construed eminent-domain power would violate individual rights. Either a person owns his legitimately acquired property or he does not.

It's remarkably easy to dig up enormous amounts of information about individuals, without their consent.

It was a perfectly average well- adjusted childhood, not a bit unlike that of millions of other individuals.

It was Nietzsche who first made us conscious of the significance of the individual as a term in the evolutionary process-in that part of the evolutionary process which has still to take place.

It would be against all nature for all the Negroes to be either at the bottom, top, or in between. We will go where the internal drive carries us like everybody else. It is up to the individual.

It will soon be possible to transmit wireless messages around the world so simply that any individual can carry and operate his own apparatus.

I've got to take a bit of a break from science fiction. As much as I've loved this stuff, I'm ready for a different century or a different time period as an actor, as an individual. Something that's, what's the word, something that's not involved with spaceships.