Best 1663 quotes in «individual quotes» category

A humane and generous concern for every individual, his health and his fulfillment, will do more to soothe the savage heart than the fear of state-inflicted death, which chiefly serves to remind us how close we remain to the jungle.

A language presupposes that all the individual users possess the organs.

A large city cannot be experientially known; its life is too manifold for any individual to be able to participate in it.

Alexei Navalny, the opposition politician who has led anti-corruption protests, had a blog about a credit line to a company owned by Vladimir Putin's son-in-law, $1.75 billion from Russian state funds; this is one transaction. Putin controls more money directly and indirectly than any individual in human history.

A leader is one of the things that distinguishes a mob from a people. He maintains the level of individuals. Too few individuals and a people reverts to a mob.

Alike for the nation and the individual, the one indispensable requisite is character.

A lion is not a lion is not a lion. As individuals, as mates, as members of a society, they're all very different.

Allah Himself has ordered that any person, any nation, any empire whose evil outweighs its good, there is a force in our universe that moves that individual, that nation, that empire out of existence.

All great cathedrals began their building by the placement of a single stone. The building unit of a great society is the individual.

All individuals have the same value, not to be determined by market price. They're made in the image and likeness of God.

All individuals are different. Some of us just wouldn't be satisfied with just carrying out a routine job and being happy.

All my lyrics are open to interpretation by the individual and imply many different meanings, therefore their relevance is purely subjective.

All novels are about certain minorities: the individual is a minority. The universal in the novel-and isn't that what we're all clamoring for these days?-is reached only through the depiction of the specific man in a specific circumstance.

All of civility depends on being able to contain the rage of individuals.

All observers not laboring under hallucinations of the senses are agreed, or can be made to agree, about facts of sensible experience, through evidence toward which the intellect is merely passive, and over which the individual will and character have no control.

All novels are about certain minorities: the individual is a minority.

All of us have our individual curses, something that we are uncomfortable with and something that we have to deal with, like me making horror films, perhaps.

All our science calculates with abstracted individual external marks, which do not touch the inner existence of any single thing

Allowance of the freedom of choices in direction, either for the group or individuals particularly in the near future.

All social change comes from the passion of individuals.

All the greatest achievements of mind have been beyond the power of unaided individuals.

Almsgiving leaves a man just where he was before. Aid restores him to society as an individual worthy of all respect and not as a man with a grievance.

A lot of luck, and being prepared when the opportunity came. There are talented individuals out there who didn't get the break that I got. Or when the break came, they weren't ready for it.

A loving and kindly approach works between individuals, it works between groups and it would work between nations if nations had the courage to try it.

Although individuals need not be well-rounded, teams should be.

Although individual temperaments vary, boys are designed to be more assertive, audacious, and excitable than girls are.

Altruism itself depends on a recognition of the reality of other persons, and on the equivalent capacity to regard oneself as merely one individual among many.

Always be yourself. There's only one you. You should embrace anything that you don't like about yourself because that's individual and that's you.

Always and inevitably everyone underestimates the number of stupid individuals in circulation.

Always keep your portfolio and your risk at your own individual comfortable sleeping point.

A man has as many social selves as there are individuals who recognize him.

A man lives not only his personal life, as an individual, but also, consciously or unconsciously, the life of his epoch and his contemporaries.

A mathematician is an individual who calls himself a 'physicist' and does 'physics' and physical experiments with abstract concepts.

America had an emphasis on the individual and so education became available for everyone.

Americans are so enamored of equality that they would rather be equal in slavery than unequal in freedom.... The subjection of individuals will increase amongst democratic nations, not only in the same proportion as their equality, but in the same proportion as their ignorance.

A mathematician is an individual who believes that prophesying that his dog will die if he deprives it of food constitutes a prediction.

A modern and humane civilization must control conception or sink into barbaric cruelty to individuals.

Americans, Poles, and the nations of Europe value individual freedom and sovereignty. We must work together to confront forces, whether they come from inside or out, from the South or the East, that threaten over time to undermine the values and to erase the bonds of culture, faith and tradition that make us who we are.

An artist must find his expression closely linked to his individual experience or else follow in the old grooves resulting in lifeless forms.

A mother is as different from anything else that God ever thought of, as can possibly be. She is a distinct and individual creation.

A nation or an individual, will do wisely to direct consumption chiefly to those articles, that are longest time in wearing out, and the most frequently in use.

An audience's or individual's reaction to my work is simply their reaction.

A nation, as an individual, has duties to fulfill appointed by God and His moral law.

A nation,” he heard himself say, “consists of its laws. A nation does not consist of its situation at a given time. If an individual’s morals are situational, that individual is without morals. If a nation’s laws are situational, that nation has no laws, and soon isn’t a nation.

A nation that forgets its past can function no better than an individual with amnesia.

And the truth must finally lie in that which every oppressed individual feels within himself but hasn't the courage to express

An education could be given which would sift individuals, discovering what they were good for, and supplying a method of assigning each to the work in life for which his nature fits him.

...and yet could swear it was just then that I fell in love. It wasn't, of course, simply the onions -- it was the sudden sense of an individual woman, of a frankness that was so often later to make me happy and miserable.

An individual human existence should be like a river

An individual deficient in the sense of humor represents more of a challenge to our idea of the human than a person of subnormal intelligence