Best 1663 quotes in «individual quotes» category

In the great mass of our people there are plenty individuals of intelligence from among whom leadership can be recruited.

In the highest government office, you have to be ready to bow out at any time, otherwise you are not a free individual anymore.

In the gametes of an individual hybrid the Anlagen for each individual parental character are found in all possible combinations but never in a single gamete the Anlagen for a pair of characters. Each combination occurs with approximately the same frequency.

In the history of the collective as in the history of the individual, everything depends on the development of consciousness.

In the long run no individual prospers beyond the measure of his faith.

In the midst of all this great variety of subjects, an individual cannot attain to perfection in each, because it is scarcely in his power to take in and comprehend the general theories of them.

In the role of Miss Munim, I had credibility as an individual.

In the society, where people are just parts in a larger machine, individuals are unable to develop fully.

In the United States, associations are established to promote the public safety, commerce, industry, morality, and religion. There is no end which the human will despairs of attaining through the combined power of individuals united into a society.

In the U.S. Senate, in the short term we need to reduce the tax burden on hard working individuals, families, and small businesses.

In the West, the basic economic and social unit is the individual; in Africa, it is the extended family or the collective.

In this era of globalization we are witnessing struggles within individual states about what their identity and interests consist in.

In those rare individual cases where women approach genius they also approach masculinity.

I please myself with imagining a State at last which can afford to be just to all men, and to treat the individual with respect as a neighbor.

I prefer, and it turns out to be the truth, that I always have in my movies an ensemble of actors, but not just one individual doing the whole movie.

I quickly learned that you don't have to be incarcerated by suffering, and that, in spite of the dysfunctional nature of your family, you are an individual in full possession of your life.

I read a lot, but at the same time I'm not a particularly good or diligent or discriminating reader. I go through maybe close to a thousand or more books a year, but a lot of times I'll only read bits and pieces of any one individual text.

I really didn't know much about the Libertarians. I knew they were for less government and more individual freedom. I liked that.

I REPRESENT THE INDIVIDUAL. I REPRESENT BEING HAPPY WITH WHO YOU ARE

Is not the very beginning of privilege, monopoly and industrial slavery this erecting of the ballot-box above the individual?

Is it not a terrible thing to be forced by society to do things which all of us as individuals regard as abominable crimes?

Is there one specific source that determines correct morality and everybody should follow that? Or should individuals come up with following that source or not depending on their situation?

I specialize in what the French call la petite histoire. I am interested in the individual thumbprint.

Isolating mechanisms are biological properties of individuals that prevent the interbreeding of populations that are actually or potentially sympatric.

I support transitioning from the progressive tax to a flat tax system - both individual and corporate/business.

I still totally believe in individual rights and individual responsibility and in choosing to do good.

I suspect that most of the individuals who have religious faith are content with blind faith

I think it's very desirable to be an individual and a free thinker.

I think if you talk to my colleagues, I was less than a fearsome individual.

I think it's an aggregation of all of the small acts that are really transformative. I think a group of small acts transform the individual. And maybe when the individual transforms, collectively we transform.

It all would have been much better if individuals saved for their own old age.

I think being individual in the show business is what gives you life and longevity.

I think I don't invest so much time in thinking about people's sexuality. I just take people as individuals.

I think it is in the nature of individuals and individual entities not to self-correct.

I think it's an individual thing. Your mountains are my molehills.

I think small groups have more collective wisdom than an individual.

I think one of the lessons we should have learned from what's happened with the current plan is that there is insurance coverage, but there is not really, many times, access to health care. If you have these high deductibles, there is every - there is a disincentive to get the policy, because you would have to pay another - I think the average of deductible policies on the individual market.

I think the isolation in China also has to do with people's memories being wiped out, collective memories as well as individual memories, by the fact that the recent history has been constantly rewritten and revised.

I think the extreme complexity of medicine has become more than an individual clinician can handle. But not more than teams of clinicians can handle.

I think that it is not right to deny a constitutional right based on simple, derogatory information that's been reported but not investigated. By contrast, to get on the No Fly List or the Selectee list, there has to be credible evidence that the individual is either involved in a terrorist plot, has terrorist associates or is providing material support to terrorists.

I think the nation as a whole has a role in making sure that each individual, each citizen maximizes one's potential.

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.

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

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