Best 1663 quotes in «individual quotes» category

I'm not the kind of person who tries to be cool or trendy, I'm definitely an individual.

In 1973, the Supreme Court ruled that individual communities should set obscenity standards. Whenever a case is tried, it will be based on a community standard for that particular place.

In a basic sense, the greater the development of each individual the more able, more effective, and less needy of limiting or restricting others she or he will be.

In accordance with the divine wisdom, genesis can only take place through destruction, and without destruction of the individual members of the species the species themselves would not exist permanently. Thus the true kindness, and beneficence, and goodness of God is clear.

In a community all acts of individuals and of organizations are directly or indirectly interconnected and interdependent

In a competitive world of limited resources, total freedom of individual action is intolerable

In a free society, individuals have the right to do right or wrong, as long as they don't threaten or infringe upon the rights or property of others.

In a government whose distinguishing characteristic should be a diffusion and equalization of its benefits and burdens the advantage of individuals will be augmented at the expense of the community at large.

In a market economy, however, the individual has some possibility of escaping from the power of the state

In an environment without public platform nor protection, the individual is the most powerful and most responsible.

In a society of ideological believers, nothing is more ridiculous than the individual who doubts and does not conform.

In a sense, Out of Oz is an examination of how individuals keep going, keep reinventing themselves and their lives, even after life-altering complications have afflicted them.

In basic terms, civilization is dependent upon the spontaneity and fulfillment of the individual. Your civilization is in sad straits. Not because you are allowed spontaneity or fulfillment to individuals, but because you are denied it, and because your institutions are based upon that premise.

In Britain the power of authority was weakened. There was much more individual freedom and there was great academic freedom.

Indecision is actually the individual’s decision to fail.

Index funds eliminate the risks of individual stocks, market sectors, and manager selection. Only stock market risk remains.

Individual freedom and individual equality cannot co-exist. I dare say no one since Thomas Jefferson has really believed it.

In dialogue, individuals gain insights that simply could not be achieved individually.

Individual capitalists, in short, behave in such a way as to threaten the conditions that permit the reproduction of the capitalist class.

Individual civil disobedience was everybody's inherent right, like the right of self-defence in normal life.

Individual consciousness is just sickness.

Individual freedom is a Jewish idea, but it's one of the functions of Christianity to make this idea universal.

Individual liberty, the basic underpinning of American society, requires constant defense against the encroachment of the state.

Individual organisms are best thought of as adaptation-executers rather than as fitness-maximizers.

Individuals bearing witness cannot do the work of social movements, but they can break a corrosive and demoralizing silence.

Individuals do not create rebellions; conditions do.

Individuals don't build great companies, teams do.

Individuals have conquered themselves. Nations and large bodies of men, never.

Individuals in a university - students, faculty, staff - can choose to become politically engaged, and a free university should foster a climate in which those are natural choices.

Individuals who are uncomfortable with themselves sometimes emit vibes that make others uncomfortable.

In duty the individual acquires his substantive freedom

Individual advances turn into social change when enough of them occur.

Individual liberty is individual power.

individuals are honest only to the extent that suits them (including their desire to please others)

Individuals because of their identity can't render an impartial judgment is just deeply offensive and contrary to all the ideals of the judicial system that we value.

Individual societies begin in harmonious adaptation to the environment and, like individuals, quickly get trapped into nonadaptive, artificial, repetitive sequences.

Individuals who attempt to please and individuals who become angry both have authority issues.

Individuals with a good self esteem can accept or reject the opinions of others, but never depend on them for their sense of worthiness.

Individual thinkers since the days of Ezekiel and Isaiah have asserted that the despoliation of land is not only inexpedient but wrong. Society, however, has not yet affirmed their belief.

In ethics all individual humans are rightly seen, not only as beings to whom things matter, but as beings who accordingly merit concern and solicitude.

Individual and national rights to wealth rest on the basis of civil and international law, or at least of custom that has the force of law.

Individual character is in the right that is in strict consistence with itself. Self-contradiction is the only wrong.

Individual experiences being limited and individual spontaneity feeble, we are strengthened and enriched by assimilating the experience of others.

Individual goals never meant that much to me. The Heisman is no exception.

Individual insanity is immune to the consequences of collective insanity

Individual misfortunes give rise to the general good; so that the more individual misfortunes exist, the more all is fine.

Individuals by themselves can make a difference. And by making a difference, you can improve the world.

[Individuals] have a right to defend themselves and recover by force what by unlawful force is taken from them.

Individual success is a myth. No one succeeds all by herself.

Individuals understood in relational terms cannot be conceived as fully separate from their communities. Others in one's community may already be a part of the self. This conception of the person as overlapping in identity with others has normative implications for what constitutes the good of the individual and how that good relates to the good of others. One's relationship with others can form a part of one's good as an individual, such that one can have a compelling interest in the welfare of these others and in one's relationship with them.