Best 1663 quotes in «individual quotes» category

The more the state "plans" the more difficult planning becomes for the individual.

The most basic principle to being a free American is the notion that we as individuals are responsible for our own lives and decisions

The most DIFFICULT thing for individuals to do when they become part of a team is to sacrifice, it is much EASIER to be selfish.

The most important factor for the development of the individual is the structure and the values of the society into which he was born.

The most important phase of living with a person: the respect for that person as an individual.

The myth is a surviving fragment of the psychic life of the infancy of the race whilst the dream is the myth of the individual.

The mystics are the only ones who have gained a glimpse into what is possible when this same capacity [for creation] is used primarily in the service of the individual himself instead of for the creation of art.

The nation is only as strong as the collective strength of its individuals.

The natural wish and impetus to feel oneself to be an individual, to be special, includes standing out more than anyone else.

The necessity of every one paying in his own labor for what he consumes, affords the only legitimate and effectual check to excessive luxury, which has so often ruined individuals, states and empires; and which has now brought almost universal bankruptcy upon us.

The Nobel Prize confers on an individual an authority which in economics no man ought to possess.

The Nordic welfare model is in many aspects a good model but it needs more of a choice for individuals.

The North has no interest in the particular Negro, but talks of justice for the whole. The South has not interest, and pretends none, in the mass of Negroes but is very much concerned about the individual.

The number of individuals employed under the Constitution of the United States will be much smaller than the number employed under the particular States.

The object of the state is always the same: to limit the individual, to tame him, to subordinate him, to subjugate him.

The objective of US authorities was to terminate their existence as peoples - not as random individuals. This is the very definition of modern genocide.

The only conception of freedom I can have is that of the prisoner or the individual in the midst of the State. The only one I know is freedom of thought and action.

The only freedom supposed to be left to the masses is that of grazing on the ration of simulacra the system distributes to each individual.

The only fruitful promise of which the life of any individual or any nation can be possessed, is a promise determined by an ideal.

The only real life is the collective life of the race; individual life has no existence except as an abstraction.

The organization cannot trust the individual; the individual must trust the organization.

The personal pronoun "I" should be the coat of arms of some individuals.

The patrol system leads each boy to see that he has some individual responsibility for the good of his patrol.

The penal code deals with things like theft, false testimony, adultery, fornication, etc. and then there's the law of the state, the law of the individual and the law of the public.

The popularity of an individual in life often only manifests itself in death.

The point I am making is that in the more primitive forms of society the individual is merely a unit; in more developed forms of society he is an independent personality.

The poison by which the weaker nature is destroyed is strengthening to the strong individual and he does not call it poison.

The progression of emancipation of any class usually, if not always, takes place through the efforts of individuals of that class.

The progress from an absolute to a limited monarchy, from a limited monarchy to a democracy, is a progress toward a true respect for the individual.

The press is like any business. Its a group of really intelligent individuals that ends up being one slathering, one-eyed, drooling monster.

The primal principle of democracy is the worth and dignity of the individual.

The printing press had a very liberatory effect that meant individuals - small groups could produce radical pamphlets - could use it for organizing.

The productivity of social cooperation surpasses in every respect the sum total of the production of isolated individuals.

The psychopathology of the masses is rooted in the psychology of the individual

The public totally discounts low-probability high-consequence events. The individual says, it's not going to be this plane, this bus, this time.

The psychic development of the individual is a short repetition of the course of development of the race.

The rate of human invention is faster, and the rate of cultural loss is slower, in areas occupied by many competing societies with many individuals and in contact with societies elsewhere.

The range of choice open to the individual is not the decisive factor in determining the degree of human freedom, but what can be chosen and what is chosen by the individual.

There are as many different religions as there are individuals.

There are few better measures of the concern a society has for its individual members and its own well being than the way it handles criminals.

There are many individual senators, including myself, who have said that, at an appropriate time after disposing of the impeachment matter, that an appropriate censure resolution that seems to me should be considered by the Congress.

There are many individuals, companies and even countries operating in what I call a 'me first' mentality, which is effectively a purely competitive approach to life, treating the planet as if it has infinite resources and pitting one country against another for supremacy.

There is a certain type of white Southerner who respects certain Negro individuals.

There are nineteen words in Yiddish that convey gradations of disparagement, from a mild, fluttery helplessness to a state of downright, irreconcilable brutishness. All of them can be usefully employed to pinpoint the kind of individuals I write about.

There are mysteries, secret zones in each individual.

There can be no existence of evil as a force to the healthy-minded individual.

There can be no real individual freedom in the presence of economic insecurity.

There is a dharma for yourself, for someone else, for a family, for a nation, for a universe. There are collective and individual dharmas.

There is always strength in numbers. The more individuals or organizations that you can rally to your cause, the better.

There are no individuals in the world only fragments of families