Best 1663 quotes in «individual quotes» category

Racism is so extreme and so pervasive in our American society that no black individual lives in an atmosphere of freedom.

Races don't fall in love, genders don't fall in love: Individuals fall in love. We all should be free to marry the person that we love.

Real change in society must start from individual initiative.

Recognition of the modes of existence of technical objects must be the result of philosophic consideration; what philosophy has to achieve in this respect is analogous to what the abolition of slavery achieved in affirming the worth of the individual human being.

Regeneration can come only through a change of heart in the individual.

Reflective abstraction, however, is based not on individual actions but on coordinated actions.

Relations between States, as between individuals, must be regulated not by armed force, but in accordance with...truth, justice and vigorous and sincere co-operation.

Relationships are never static. They have to evolve over time as the individuals in them change.

Religion and nationalism, as well as any custom and any belief however absurd and degrading, if it only connects the individual with others, are refuges from what man most dreads: isolation.

Religion is the worst thing that ever happened to mankind - the ironic part is that it's presented as a good thing, and its effect is absolutely catastrophic to individuals and to societies.

Religion is what the individual does with his own solitariness. Thus religion is solitariness; and if you are never solitary, you are never religious.

Responsibility is a unique concept. It can only reside and inhere in a single individual. You may share it with others, but your portion is not diminished. You may delegate it, but it is still with you. You may disclaim it, but you cannot divest yourself of it. If responsibility is rightfully yours, no evasion, or ignorance or passing the blame can shift the burden to someone else. Unless you can point your finger at the man who is responsible when something goes wrong, then you have never had anyone really responsible.

Revenues should be increased not by increasing the tax rates on the individual but by building a bigger economy for everybody.

Revolutions are the periods of history when individuals count most.

Revolution will free society of its afflictions, while science will free the individual of his.

Right action tends to be defined in terms of general individual rights and standards that have been critically examined and agreed upon by the whole society.

Sad but true: individual intelligence probably peaked in the Upper Paleolithic, and we have been self-domesticated creatures ever since

Salvation is an individual relationship with God. I've always considered myself to be a devotional poet, and I consider myself to be a devotional novelist.

RZA is one of the most unique individuals and rap artists that I have worked with.

Sexiness is about being an individual and having conviction about what that is.

Science cannot describe individuals, but only types. If human societies cannot be classified, they must remain inaccessible to scientific description.

Scoutmasters deal with the individual boy rather than with the mass.

Self-knowledge is the basis of jeet kune do because it is effective not only for the individual's martial art but also for his life as a human being.

Sensuality is the total mobilization of the senses: an individual observes his partner intently, straining to catch every sound.

Sin defies God, utterly corrupts each individual, corrodes all social relationships, and issues in death.

She thought about him all the time - not so much about Doug the individual, but rather about the nature of love, and the shock of learning how quickly it could disappear.

Singing your own songs is all about individual expression

Since, therefore, individuals as well as the public are so indebted to these writers for the benefits they enjoy, I think them not only entitled to the honour of palms and crowns, but even to be numbered among the gods.

Since the State necessarily lives by the compulsory confiscation of private capital, and since its expansion necessarily involves ever-greater incursions on private individuals and private enterprise, we must assert that the state is profoundly and inherently anti-capitalist .

Socialize the individual's surplus and you socialize his spirit and creativeness.

Skype is for any individual who has a broadband Internet connection.

Small business, right down to the individual can beat big, bureaucratic companies ten times out of ten.

Social psychology has, as a rule, dealt with various phases of social experience from the psychological standpoint of individual experience.

Social psychology is especially interested in the effect which the social group has in the determination of the experience and conduct of the individual member.

Societies are composed of individuals and are good only insofar as they help individuals to realize their potentialities and to lead a happy and creative life.

Society flourishes when and only when its molecular unit, the family, flourishes. We know that lasting improvement comes only in the small increments produced by individuals adhering to the simple rules of life.

Socrates demonstrated long ago, that the truly free individual is free only to the extent of his own self-mastery.

Society is a republic. When an individual tries to lift themselves above others, they are dragged down by the mass, either by ridicule or slander.

Society is only possible on these terms, that the individual finds therein a strengthening of his own ego and his own will.

Software patents, in particular, are very ripe for abuse. The whole system encourages big corporations getting thousands and thousands of patents. Individuals almost never get them.

Small aids to individuals, large aid to masses.

Socialism and interventionism. Both have in common the goal of subordinating the individual unconditionally to the state.

Social media is the empowerment of the individual at the expense of the system.

Society attacks early, when the individual is helpless.

Society cares for the individual only so far as he is profitable.

Society in its full sense . . . is never an entity separable from the individuals who compose it.

Society evolves not by shouting each other down, but by the unique capacity of unique, individual human beings to comprehend each other.

Society is not just the product of its individual members; it is also the product of its constituent groups.

Society's needs come before the individuals needs

Society today is so organised that every individual group has the power to disrupt it. How is their power to be channelled into constructive channels?