Best 1663 quotes in «individual quotes» category

These numerous points at which money is withdrawn from circulation and accumulated in numerous individual hoards or potential money-capitals appears as so many obstacles to circulation, because they immobilise the money and deprive it of its capacity to circulate for a certain time.

The smaller the office, the more power individuals with big money have.

The society is the extension of the individual. If the individual is greedy, cruel, merciless, egoistic, etc. so it will be the society.

The soul of an individual; your soul and my soul, is that part of us that is immortal.

The sovereignty of the state as the power that protects the individual and that defines the mutual relationships among the visible spheres, rises high above them by its right to command and compel. But within these spheres ... another authority rules, an authority that descends directly from God apart from the state. This authority the state does not confer but acknowledges.

The spiritual life of individuals has to be extended both vertically to God and horizontally to other souls; and the more it grows in both directions, the less merely individual and therefore more truly personal it will become.

The State is concentric, but the individual is eccentric.

The State is the absolute reality and the individual himself has objective existence, truth and morality only in his capacity as a member of the State.

The State is a gang of thieves writ large - the most immoral, grasping and unscrupulous individuals in any society.

The sobering thought is that individuals and societies are not, in the end, remembered for how they made their money, but for how they spent it.

The system of plunder derives much of its support from individuals who do not subscribe to socialism but who say, 'We're paying for it, so we might as well get our share'

the term 'androgyny' ... defines a condition under which the characteristics of the sexes, and the human impulses expressed by men and women, are not rigidly assigned. Androgyny seeks to liberate the individual from the confines of the appropriate.

The thing about Matt Cameron is he has made us 1000 times a better band than we've ever been. He's such a freight train on drums and such a cool individual as a man that it makes us better as a band, and we are now complete with him.

The thinking needs to shift from being less about the actual things, to being about the individual user.

The strains and stresses suffered by the individual in society are grounded in the normal functioning of that society (and of the individual!) rather than in its disturbances and diseases.

The thoughts I express, whether clearly or ambiguously, are my own and they are my individual responsibility.

The ultimate aim of education is to enable individuals to become the architects of their own education and through that process to continually reinvent themselves.

The true greatness of nations is in those qualities which constitute the greatness of the individual.

The United States Constitution builds politics right into the process of selecting federal judges. This third branch, the judiciary, is designed to have a longer view. To have individuals who are more insulated from politics. They're not elected directly. They're appointed for life. So, politics enters, but it's also, controlled. And if you bypass this process, I'm not sure what we do.

The United States remains deeply concerned that, to date, no individuals have been convicted for the 1999 killings of U.S. citizens Agron, Ylli, and Mehmet Bytyqi.

The universe seems bankrupt as soon as we begin to discuss the characters of individuals.

The valuable person in any business is the individual who can and will cooperate with others.

The successful investor is usually an individual who is inherently interested in business problems.

The viewer brings something individual to the experience of any artwork.

The values to which the conservative appeals are inevitably caricatured by the individuals designated to put them into practice.

The war-function has grasped us so far; but the constructive interests may some day seem no less imperative, and impose on the individual a hardly lighter burden.

The way things are supposed to work is that we're supposed to know virtually everything about what they [the government] do: that's why they're called public servants. They're supposed to know virtually nothing about what we do: that's why we're called private individuals.

"The way of Cain" refers to any individual who attempts to approach God on his or her own terms rather than on God's terms.

The well-being of individual persons in any society varies inversely with the money at the disposal of the political class.

The whole American experiment has been predicated on giving individuals as much control over their own lives as possible.

The women in my family are just strong women who do their own thing, so I knew I needed to have individuals like that.

The words "environment," "medium" denote something more than surroundings which encompass an individual. They denote the specific continuity of the surroundings with his own active tendencies.

They have accepted me as an individual, as a personality, as an entity. I belong! I am important! I am somebody!

The whole theory of the universe is directed unerringly to one single individual.

The #‎ zodiac sign on the #‎ Ascendant normally tells us much concerning the dharma of the individual - that is, the central potentiality which the person should seek consciously to actualize as a vessel or lens through which the Divine may act.

This individual does not know where initiative ends and rocket-propelled idiocy begins.

This is not the wisdom of the crowd, but the wisdom of someone in the crowd. It’s not that the network itself is smart; it’s that the individuals get smarter because they’re connected to the network.

This, then, is the Anarchistic definition of government: the subjection of the non-invasive individual to an external will.

those who judge must take all aspects of an individual's personality into account.

The unspeakable visions of the individual.

They make a rout about universal liberty, without considering that all that is to be valued, or indeed can be enjoyed by individuals, is private liberty.

They solved the problem of coexistence through the use of individual stereo headphones.

This felicitous supposition declared that there is only one Individual, and that this indivisible Individual is every one of the separate beings in the universe, and that these beings are the instruments and masks of divinity itself.

Those who are formed to win general admiration are seldom calculated to bestow individual happiness.

Through improvisation, jazz teaches you about yourself. And through swing, it teaches you that other people are individuals too. It teaches you how to coordinate with them.

Time is found in the calibration of the individual to the timing of a collective endeavour, the social grace that less clock-bound societies must practise.

Time itself is an individual gift. It is wise to cherish it carefully and give it away generously.

Time, to the nation as to the individual, is nothing absolute; its duration depends on the rate of thought and feeling.

To assign to everybody his proper place in society is the task of the consumers. Their buying and abstention from buying is instrumental in determining each individual's social position.

Time is a fluid condition which has no existence except in the momentary avatars of individual people. There is no such thing as was - only is.