In a society in which individualism is becoming rampant, people more and more believe that they are the center of the world.… — Martin Seligman Copy Share Image
I realized that conservatism was the philosophy that best suited me, with its emphasis on individual liberty, personal responsibility, and merit. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Kids need to start thinking for themselves. Not to be like their friends that think they're individuals. I don't want you to… — Marilyn Manson Copy Share Image
The printing press had a very liberatory effect that meant individuals - small groups could produce radical pamphlets - could use it… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
The wisdom of our parents, grandparents, ancestors. In each individual life, it seems, we must first reject that wisdom, then later come… — Tad Williams Copy Share Image
Of necessity, the autobiographical self is not just about one individual but about all the others that an individual interacts with. Of… — Antonio Damasio Copy Share Image
Being unemployed is even more disastrous for individuals than you'd expect. Aside from the obvious harm - poverty, difficulty paying off debts… — James Surowiecki Copy Share Image
While some of them acknowledge the obligation of natural morality in their mode of conducting their cases, and preserve their individual character… — George Combe Copy Share Image
It is this idea 'decency' should be attached to wealth -and 'indecency'' to poverty - that forms the core of one strand… — Alain de Botton Copy Share Image
If conservatives really believed in individual liberty, as they endlessly claim and if they used both halves of their brains then they'd… — L. Neil Smith Copy Share Image
“They [progressives] are men and women who tend to believe that the human being is perfectible and social progress predictable, and that… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
If we betake ourselves to the statistical method, we do so confessing that we are unable to follow the details of each… — James Clerk Maxwell Copy Share Image
The words of the Constitution... are so unrestricted by their intrinsic meaning or by their history or by tradition or by prior… — Felix Frankfurter Copy Share Image
But art not only exploits the variety of appearances, it also affirms the validity of individual outlook and thereby admits a further… — Rudolf Arnheim Copy Share Image
Every time you make the right choice in the face of potential criticism you build strength that makes choosing the right easier… — Richard G. Scott Copy Share Image
Most libertarians agree that all rights are, in effect, property rights, beginning with this fundamental right to self-ownership and control of one's… — L. Neil Smith Copy Share Image
The way I grew up, I had a lot of personal issues with art. It's an individual thing, but I also think… — John Porcellino Copy Share Image
Our survival depends on the healing power of love, intimacy and relationships. As individuals. As communities. As a country. As a culture.… — Dean Ornish Copy Share Image
Motivation comes from within each individual. It's a personal thing. It's pride, guts, desire, whatever you want to call it; some people… — Mike Ditka Copy Share Image
How do we turn our nation around? President Obama thinks the answer is more and more government. Government is not the answer.… — Ted Cruz Copy Share Image
Freedom is born of self-discipline. No individual, no nation, can achieve or maintain liberty without self-control. The undisciplined man (or woman) is… — Alan Valentine Copy Share Image
I am happy that I am a unique individual, endowed with unique talents and abilities. I never spend my precious time and… — Laurence Boldt Copy Share Image
Sometimes that mantle is hard to adjust to wearing but we are at a stage that we are comfortable with it and… — James Young Copy Share Image
All that's left now is purely poetic work, putting more life into individual places, as I've made so sure of the fundamental… — Oskar Kokoschka Copy Share Image
To the individual believer indwelt by the Holy Spirit there is granted the direct impression of the Spirit of God on the… — G. Campbell Morgan Copy Share Image
The problem with these presidential debates like this is that you can't really prepare for them, because the questions are so individual… — Michael Gerson Copy Share Image
The self is defined psychologically as the psychic totality of the individual. Anything that a [person] postulates as being a greater totality… — Carl Jung Copy Share Image
Ideas, like individuals, live and die. They flourish, according to their nature, in one soil or climate and droop in another. They… — William MacNeile Dixon Copy Share Image
By privileges, immunities, or prerogatives to give unlimited swing to the passions of individuals, and then to hope that they will restrain… — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
We seek true individuality and the true individuals. But we find them not. For lo, we mortals see what our poor eyes… — Josiah Royce Copy Share Image
Physical pain is not a simple affair of an impulse, travelling at a fixed rate along a nerve. It is the resultant… — Rene Leriche Copy Share Image
We are sure that, though we know not how, necessity does comport with liberty, the individual with the world, my polarity with… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Senator McCain believes there ought to be a limit to how much the government can take from anybody, and he believes that… — Karl Rove Copy Share Image
All the important human advances that we know of since historical times began have been due to individuals of whom the majority… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
Every day is a lesson in focus for me, and not buying into the world's concept of what you have to be.… — Lauryn Hill Copy Share Image
But the history of the changes produced by a universal idea is not a history of changes in the individual, but of… — Lafcadio Hearn Copy Share Image
Jazz is improvisation and syncopation, with resilience and flow, with earthy elegance, nuance and subtlety, with the integrity of individual expression within… — Greg Thomas Copy Share Image
When I think of a place of worship, I think of a place where one can sit and be reminded of all… — Richard Meier Copy Share Image
On a personal level, Freaking Out is a process whereby an individual casts off outmoded and restricting standards of thinking, dress, and… — Frank Zappa Copy Share Image
You can't run a government from one single person. What instead matters is that leadership be about gathering around extraordinary individuals and… — Justin Trudeau Copy Share Image