Best 1663 quotes in «individual quotes» category

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

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 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 unspeakable visions of the individual.

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

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

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

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

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

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 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.

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.

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

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.

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

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

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

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.

Throughout America's young history there has been a necessary tension between the individual and the group.

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

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.

To be a landscape painter is to be a perverse individual.

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.

To assume that one's existential task is completed when the individual is brought into right relation with society, that is, when the individual has been socialized, is to absolutize society and confuse society with God.

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

To be an architect is to possess an individual voice speaking a generally understood language of form.

To become conscious of this power is to become a 'live wire.' The universe is the live wire. It carries power sufficient to meet every situation in the life of every individual. When the individual mind touches the universal mind, it receives all its power.

Today the predatory state, or the predatory group of states, with power of total destruction, is no more to be tolerated than the predatory individual.

To me an anthology gives meaning to the phrase, "the whole is greater than the sum of its parts." Even if those individual parts are really f-ing hot.

To deliberately criticise another individual may cause an indelible stain on the critic.

To love one person productively means to be related to his human core, to him as representing mankind. Love for one individual, in so far as it is divorced from love for man, can refer only to the superficial and to the accidental; of necessity it remains shallow.

To me, punk is about being an individual and going against the grain and standing up and saying 'This is who I am'.

To judge individuals before understanding them is a form of human rejection and feeds upon itself.

To me, each individual is far more valuable than society as a whole.

To observe a profoundly stupid individual can be very enriching, and that's why we should never feel contempt for them.

To progress we must do the work as individuals, but then we must come together and work together.

To operate а tank as a crew, it's not about five individuals. It has to be one organism, composed of five people.

To punish the individual for the sins of the system makes no sense. We're responsible for changing it, yes. But we can't actually invent another universe, so we have to start where we are.

To try to expunge an individual's history is a terrible violation.