Individual Quotes · Page 42

The individual citizen has very little possibility of having any influence - of making his opinion felt in the decision-making.

— Erich Fromm

I've got a reason for living. When I wake up, there are individuals who are counting on me to be my best…

— Eric Thomas

Democracy and liberty are not the same. Democracy is little more than mob rule, while liberty refers to the sovereignty of the…

— Walter E. Williams

That's the difference between governments and individuals. Governments don't care, individuals do.

— Mark Twain

Originality exists in every individual because each of us differs from the others. We are all primary numbers divisible only by ourselves.

— Jean Guitton

Freedom of opinion is like health; both are individual, and no good general conception can be set up of either of them.

— Friedrich Nietzsche

Whatever my individual desires were to be free, I was not alone. There were many others who felt the same way.

— Rosa Parks

Bureaucracies tend to grow and to brag about their growth based on how many individuals they have and how much money they…

— Darrell Issa

Choosing individual stocks without any idea of what you're looking for is like running through a dynamite factory with a burning match.…

— Joel Greenblatt

I want the French people to respect values that allow each individual to practice his or her faith, but in the frame…

— Francois Hollande

Not only is the destiny of the individual bound up with the entire Church; it is responsible for helping to sanctify the…

— Huston Smith

I'm always open, and will criticize myself, too. And I just think being that honest with everybody puts you in a different…

— Ice Cube

Every individual, like a statue, develops in his life the laws of harmony, integrity, and freedom; or those of deformity, immorality, and…

— Harriot Kezia Hunt

In fact, it is because the nature of prayer is so personal and can have such a powerful effect on a community…

— Barbara Brandriff Crabb

We grow up with this idea that we're all individual agents. We work, make our money, have our place to live and…

— Chang-Rae Lee

We have spoken of beings so low in the scale that the individuals throughout their whole existence are not sufficiently specialized to…

— Asa Gray

It would be one thing if we could say the system works [in Illinois], and that individuals followed procedures and were found…

— Jan Schakowsky

Utopianism also attempts to shape and dominate the individual by doing two things at once: it strips the individual of his uniqueness,…

— Anonymous

This work of connecting our light to the world does not need to be done through a mass movement, or by millions…

— Llewellyn Vaughan-Lee

The fact that the majority wants something good does not give them the right to use force on the minority that don't…

— Penn Jillette

The power of these recommendations is that they come from leaders representing a broad spectrum of religious conviction. At the table were…

— Charles Haynes

Let's make it clear for the dimmest bulbs among you: the kids at Columbine High didn't die from too many guns, they…

— L. Neil Smith

The chief burden of the frustrated is the consciousness of a blemished, ineffectual self, and their chief desire is to slough off…

— Eric Hoffer

The nation as such is not a large subject that has needs, that works, practices economy, and consumes. . . . Thus…

— Ralph Raico

Most individuals work much harder to hang on to what they have than to take the necessary risk to shoot for their…

— Tony Robbins

The next major advance in the health of the American people will be determined by what the individual is willing to do…

— John Knowles

A hundred children, a hundred individuals who are people--not people-to-be, not people of tomorrow, but people now, right now--today.

— Janusz Korczak

That, in essence is Fascism - ownership of government by an individual, by a group, or by any controlling private power.

— Franklin D. Roosevelt

I was quite solitary for 'Hitman.' I was quite apart. He struck me as a very sad individual. There was a mournful…

— Rupert Friend

The Universe does not compensate individuals based on the activity of work, but on the activity of consciousness.

— John Randolph Price

Death comes in its own time, in its own way.Death is as unique as the individual experiencing it.

— Henry Van Dyke

A person without conviction is a weak, jellyfish type of individual who mindlessly follows the crowd.

— Rick Warren

Each individual piece is a calculated attempt to entice women to add to their wardrobe.

— Bill Blass

Every individual should have a purpose in life which is worthy of intense effort-and constantly work toward the definite goal ahead.

— Roderick E. Stevens

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

— Ben Folds

Individuals need to be willing to face truth about their attitudes, behaviors, even what we want out of life.

— Joyce Meyer

If you can find a way to confound people's prejudices, restore the humanity of people, individuals, you restore them to life.

— Jon Lee Anderson

Individuals achieve optimal stupidity when they're given substantial powers while being insulated from the results of their actions.

— Jaron Lanier

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

— Sri Chinmoy

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

— Franz Beckenbauer