Best 1663 quotes in «individual quotes» category

The lessons from the peace process are clear; whatever life throws at us, our individual responses will be all the stronger for working together and sharing the load.

The life of the individual is a continuous combat with errors and obstacles, and no victory is more satisfying than the one achieved against opposition.

The liberty of the individual must be thus far limited; he must not make himself a nuisance to other people.

The life of states cannot, any more than the life of individuals, be conditioned by the force and the will of a unit, however powerful, but by the consensus of a group, which must one day include all states.

The Liberty of the press consists in the right to publish with impunity truth with good motives for justifiable ends, though reflecting on government, magistracy, or individuals.

The life history of the individual is first and foremost an accommodation to the patterns and standards traditionally handed down in his community

The liberty of the individual is no gift of civilization. It was greatest before there was any civilization.

The liberty of the individual is the greatest thing of all, it is on this and this alone that the true will of the people can develop.

The link between rational individual behavior and collectively desirable outcomes is extremely tenuous.

The likelihood of one individual being right increases in direct proportion to the intensity to which others are trying to prove him wrong.

The love for our native land strengthens our individual and national character.

The lowest stage of humanity is experienced when the individual must labour for a small pittance of wages from others.

The marketplace obliges men, whether they will or not, in pursuing their own selfish interests, to connect the general good with their own individual success.

The masses don't shed their blood for the benefit of a few individuals.

The Marine Corps went from 15,000, which its strength was when I was Commandant, to approximately 400,000 when I retired, and more than that afterward, without losing its individual characteristics. It was the same Marine Corps. It was not different in any respect.

The mental imagery involved with pianistic tactilia is not related to the striking of individual keys but rather to the rites of passage between notes.

The message of individual liberty and peace is contagious.

The merit of a democratic regime rests on one's continual willingness to exchange views, and to compete on the basis of individual merit and capacities.

The moment you have protected an individual, you have protected society.

The more connected that individual is to an issue they care about, the higher probability there is they will stay involved over a longer period of time.

The more bullets flying, the less accurate each individual slug has to be.

The more I wrote, the more I became a human being. The writing may have seemed monstrous (to some) for it was a violation, but I became a more human individual because of it. I was getting the poison out of my system.

The more the state "plans" the more difficult planning becomes for the individual.

The most basic principle to being a free American is the notion that we as individuals are responsible for our own lives and decisions

The most DIFFICULT thing for individuals to do when they become part of a team is to sacrifice, it is much EASIER to be selfish.

The most important factor for the development of the individual is the structure and the values of the society into which he was born.

The most important phase of living with a person: the respect for that person as an individual.

The mystics are the only ones who have gained a glimpse into what is possible when this same capacity [for creation] is used primarily in the service of the individual himself instead of for the creation of art.

The necessity of every one paying in his own labor for what he consumes, affords the only legitimate and effectual check to excessive luxury, which has so often ruined individuals, states and empires; and which has now brought almost universal bankruptcy upon us.

The nation is only as strong as the collective strength of its individuals.

The myth is a surviving fragment of the psychic life of the infancy of the race whilst the dream is the myth of the individual.

The natural wish and impetus to feel oneself to be an individual, to be special, includes standing out more than anyone else.

The North has no interest in the particular Negro, but talks of justice for the whole. The South has not interest, and pretends none, in the mass of Negroes but is very much concerned about the individual.

The Nobel Prize confers on an individual an authority which in economics no man ought to possess.

The number of individuals employed under the Constitution of the United States will be much smaller than the number employed under the particular States.

The Nordic welfare model is in many aspects a good model but it needs more of a choice for individuals.

The only freedom supposed to be left to the masses is that of grazing on the ration of simulacra the system distributes to each individual.

The object of the state is always the same: to limit the individual, to tame him, to subordinate him, to subjugate him.

The only conception of freedom I can have is that of the prisoner or the individual in the midst of the State. The only one I know is freedom of thought and action.

The objective of US authorities was to terminate their existence as peoples - not as random individuals. This is the very definition of modern genocide.

The only fruitful promise of which the life of any individual or any nation can be possessed, is a promise determined by an ideal.

The only real life is the collective life of the race; individual life has no existence except as an abstraction.

The penal code deals with things like theft, false testimony, adultery, fornication, etc. and then there's the law of the state, the law of the individual and the law of the public.

The organization cannot trust the individual; the individual must trust the organization.

The patrol system leads each boy to see that he has some individual responsibility for the good of his patrol.

The progress from an absolute to a limited monarchy, from a limited monarchy to a democracy, is a progress toward a true respect for the individual.

The point I am making is that in the more primitive forms of society the individual is merely a unit; in more developed forms of society he is an independent personality.

The popularity of an individual in life often only manifests itself in death.

The press is like any business. Its a group of really intelligent individuals that ends up being one slathering, one-eyed, drooling monster.

The primal principle of democracy is the worth and dignity of the individual.