Let no man posture as an advocate of peace if he proposes or supports any social system that initiates the use of… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
It's your job to come up with compelling characters who speak to an individual authenticity. If I'm not interested in the characters,… — Nic Pizzolatto Copy Share Image
The more developed a nation is, the more complete is the independence of the individual, and the safer the individual from encroachments… — Dmitry Pisarev Copy Share Image
If the 19th [century] was the century of the individual (liberalism means individualism), you may consider that this is the "collective" century,… — Benito Mussolini Copy Share Image
We have to look in the mirror first. What are we doing? How can we make a change? It always starts with… — Sylvia Earle Copy Share Image
childhood was not a time in a person's life, but a country, a country under siege, from which certain individuals were taken… — Kate Green Copy Share Image
I suppose I've become less judgmental about individuals leading lives according to false ideas and false consciousness, because sometimes entire societies are… — Pankaj Mishra Copy Share Image
To all general purposes we have uniformly been one people each individual citizen everywhere enjoying the same national rights, privileges, and protection. — Alexander Hamilton Copy Share Image
With the rise of capitalism, it became more obvious that people pursue individual self-interest. The great nationalist in Italy, Giuseppe Mazzini, a… — Martha C. Nussbaum Copy Share Image
One other specific piece of guidance we've offered is that low-quality content on some parts of a website can impact the whole… — Amit Singhal Copy Share Image
I shall always rebel against any attempt to reduce a human being to a kind of mannequin, whose deeds and questions would… — Louis Aragon Copy Share Image
We have always been a nation that has celebrated success of various kinds. The kid that gets the honor roll, the individual… — Mitt Romney Copy Share Image
The question of truth is really a question of memory, deep memory, for it deals with something prior to ourselves and can… — Pope Francis Copy Share Image
Individuals who succeed have a belief in the power of commitment. If there's a single belief that seems almost inseparable from success,… — Tony Robbins Copy Share Image
I believed the people had a true instinct in most matters of government when left alone. That they were not swayed, as… — William Lyon Mackenzie King Copy Share Image
My problem with Obama is that he's not a new paradigm; he's an old paradigm. A new paradigm would be somebody like… — Shelby Steele Copy Share Image
Instead of looking at individual buildings, it makes more metaphorical sense to think of New York as one enormous chunk of masonry… — Will Self Copy Share Image
It is so often true that whether a person carries with him an atmosphere of gloom and depression or one of confidence… — James Keller Copy Share Image
We are all trying to make it the best way we know how, so when we look at each other as individuals… — Ger Duany Copy Share Image
One senses, in all autobiography, a straining toward perfection, perfection of a kind that connects the individual with a cosmic pattern which,… — Roger Rosenblatt Copy Share Image
“Greaser ' didn't have anything to do with it. My buddy over there wouldn't have done it. Maybe you would have done… — S.E. Hinton Copy Share Image
I do not see any essential difference between abstract and primitive art. Both are simple and sincere. Naturally, we should not generalize… — Vladimir Nabokov Copy Share Image
Corruption is uniquely reprehensible in a democracy because it violates the system's first principle, which we all learned back in the sunshiny… — Thomas Frank Copy Share Image
[I]n the American soul there is a lonely individual standing in a vast landscape. He is either on a horse or driving… — Don DeLillo Copy Share Image
All corporatism – even when practised in societies where hard work, enterprise and cooperation are as highly valued as in Korea –… — Margaret Thatcher Copy Share Image
At the end of the day, though, the band members have to be strong. It's down to the individuals in the unit.… — Shirley Manson Copy Share Image
Society is a republic. When an individual tries to lift themselves above others, they are dragged down by the mass, either by… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
As Serbia continues to move towards rectifying the evils of its past and joining the ranks of democratic nations, it is important… — Tim Bishop Copy Share Image
I do read books. I suppose it's more or less the same thing, but at least I'm alone and I'm an individual.… — Jack Vance Copy Share Image
The Libertarian Party holds that same-sex marriages are an individual issue and that the government has no right to determine with whom… — Michael Badnarik Copy Share Image
That the equalization of property exercises an influence on political society was clearly understood even by some of the old legislators. Laws… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
Our mind, by virtue of a certain finite, limited capability, is by no means capable of putting a question to Nature that… — Erwin Schrodinger Copy Share Image
Communism is a monopolistic system, economically and politically. The system suppresses individual initiative, and the 21st century is all about individualism and… — Lech Walesa Copy Share Image
We believe that the government has an important role to create the conditions that promote entrepreneurship, upward mobility, and individual responsibility. — Paul Ryan Copy Share Image
It is a striking example of modern conservatism's emphasis on the moral worth of the individual. ... When I look at the… — Ramesh Ponnuru Copy Share Image
The only thing I believe is individual responsibility doesn't mean the government is the answer to ever fear and every problem every… — Sean Hannity Copy Share Image
It's hard to get along with people. As much as you try to like them and accept them as individuals, it becomes… — Henry Rollins Copy Share Image
Our primordial purpose is to respond to the impulsion from within to solve the mystery of our individual existence, to find and… — Michael Beckwith Copy Share Image
Charlie Parker was the greatest individual musician that ever lived. Every instrument in the band tried to copy Charlie Parker, and in… — Gary Giddins Copy Share Image
Those rare individuals society labels geniuses are almost always freaks of nature and are naturally gifted rather than being diligent students who… — James Morcan Copy Share Image