Individual Quotes · Page 103

It is my ambition to be, as a private individual, abolished and voided from history, leaving it markless.

— William Faulkner

Society does not exist for itself, but for the individual; and man goes into it, not to lose, but to find himself.

— Phillips Brooks

Behavioral change is more important than individual product choices. They both have a role to play.

— John Elkington

The real basic power of an individual isn't what he or she knows; it's the ability to think and learn and face…

— Nathaniel Branden

We use eating as a medium for social relationships: satisfaction of the most individual of needs becomes a means of creating community.

— Margaret Visser

Instead of a national curriculum for education, what is really needed is an individual curriculum for every child

— Charles Handy

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

— Kenneth Kaunda

An individual voice can be heard in a choir that otherwise sings in unison. This is something that is not excused.

— Tahar Ben Jelloun

Unless each day can be looked back upon by an individual as one in which he has had some fun, some joy,…

— Dwight D. Eisenhower

A safe and nutritionally adequate diet is a basic individual right and an essential condition for sustainable development, especially in developing countries.

— Gro Harlem Brundtland

An esoteric or enlightened teacher of Buddhism is someone who has the ability to transfer power to another individual. A real empowerment…

— Frederick Lenz

By separating the function of adaptation from the function of maintaining the integrity of individual genes, sex allows much greater diversity while…

— Seth Lloyd

Manet did not do the expected. He was a pioneer. He followed his individual whim. Told the public what he wanted it…

— Robert Henri

I look at the textures, surfaces, colors, and the individual objects in the painting. And then I wonder: what are the relationships…

— Mordicai Gerstein

The act of writing for the slave constituted the act of creating a public, historical self, not only the self of the…

— Henry Louis Gates

If we ourselves remain angry and then sing world peace, it has little meaning. First, our individual self must learn peace. This…

— Anonymous

How much evil throughout history could have been avoided had people exercised their moral acuity with convictional courage and said to the…

— Joel Salatin

Margaret Thatcher was a 20th century visionary who understood the power of individual freedom versus the tyranny of government collectivism. She was…

— Anonymous

Teach me to take all grace / And spring it into blades of act, / Grow spears and sheaves of charity, /…

— Thomas Merton

Humanity today is not safe in the presence of humanity. The old cannibalism has given way to anonymous action in which the…

— Norman Cousins

The actual organization of behavior goes on the level of the individual nerve cells and their connections, and we have a hundred…

— Steven Pinker

Any individual or society that fails to honor or provide the opportunity for women to fully exert their power can never truly…

— Rod Stryker

A person who does not enter the new [Rastakhiz] party is either an individual who belongs to an illegal organization, or is…

— Mohammed Reza Pahlavi

Agency has become a catch word. In a way, this intoxication with ‘agency’ is the product of liberal individualism. The ability of…

— Talal Asad

Individuals carry their success or failure with them. It does not depend on outside conditions.

— Ralph Waldo Trine

Jazz is about the only form of art existing today in which there is freedom of the individual without the loss of…

— Dave Brubeck

I truly believe that we cannot come to a place of reconciliation until there is individual repentance and corporate repentance.

— David Oyelowo

As someone who played a team sport, I feel a bit uncomfortable being ranked as an individual so high

— Franz Beckenbauer

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

— Jeremiah Denton

I hate to speak about individuals. Players don't win you trophies, teams win trophies, squads win trophies.

— Jose Mourinho

Faith in your own powers and confidence in your individual methods are essential to success.

— Roderick E. Stevens

I specialize in what the French call la petite histoire. I am interested in the individual thumbprint.

— Katherine Anne Porter

I sort of thought the framers of the Constitution were talking about the rights of individuals, not corporate entities.

— Sandra Day O'Connor

For change to happen in any community, the initiative must come from the individual.

— Dalai Lama

Remember always that you have not only the right to be an individual; you have an obligation to be one.

— Eleanor Roosevelt

The personal pronoun "I" should be the coat of arms of some individuals.

— Antoine Rivarol

To accomplish artistic work, of any individual worth, nature must be seen through the medium of the artist's intellectual emotions.

— Gertrude Kasebier

Strength is derived from unity. The range of our collective vision is far greater when individual insights become one.

— Andrew Carnegie

Any altruistic system is inherently unstable, because it is open to abuse by selfish individuals, ready to exploit it.

— Richard Dawkins

Beauty is self-defined, perceived and understood without ambiguity. It's the stuff that lies under the skins of our individual existences.

— Terence McKenna