Individual Quotes · Page 98

Economic activity is carried out by individuals in organisations that require a high degree of social co-operation

— Francis Fukuyama

...the right of the individual to elect freely the manner of his care in illness must be preserved.

— Dwight D. Eisenhower

Never ever depend on governments or institutions to solve any major problems. All social change comes from the passion of individuals.

— Margaret Mead

I'm just an individual who doesn't feel that I need to have somebody qualify my work in any particular way. I'm working…

— David Bowie

We need do no more than repeat: only under communism does the individual become himself and lead his own life.

— Johann Most

With freedom comes responsibility, a responsibility that can only be met by the individual.

— Ronald Reagan

After winning, most teams become individuals; most teams become complacent.

— Lou Holtz

The face of the team are the people who're playing on the cricket field. The team is not about one individual.

— Gautam Gambhir

The only real revolution is in the enlightenment of the mind and the improvement of character, the only real emancipation is individual,…

— Will Durant

What we did was to try and exploit that spirit [the idea of giving], which was there even before I approached individual…

— Nelson Mandela

In the early stages of wealth, up to 10 years after individuals became very rich, they display a bit of reluctance to…

— Frederick Winslow Taylor

Inspiration, it is well recognized, rarely comes unless an individual has immersed himself in the subject. He must have a rich background…

— Edmund Ware Sinnott

It is possible for a single individual to defy the whole might of an unjust empire to save his honor, his religion,…

— Mahatma Gandhi

The Free Exercise Clause protects the individual from any coercive measure that encourages him toward one faith or creed, discourages him from…

— William O. Douglas

It really doesn’t matter how the manager is. If you make a mistake and the manager is calm, you still feel terrible…

— Joleon Lescott

Quantum Mechanics is different. Its weirdness is evident without comparison. It is harder to train your mind to have quantum mechanical tuition,…

— Brian Greene

Psychoanalysis , which interprets the human being as a socialized being, and the psychic apparatus as essentially developed and determined through the…

— Erich Fromm

There is much the government can do and should do to improve the environment. But even more important is the individual who…

— Lady Bird Johnson

We are not wholly patriotic when we are working with all our heart for America merely; we are truly patriotic only when…

— Mary Parker Follett

I wish there were fewer art dealers. I wish there were fewer auctions. I wish there were just two auctions a year.…

— Laurence Graff

From the ethical point of view, no one can escape responsibility with the excuse that he is only an individual, on whom…

— Anonymous

The month of April 2000 will provide an unprecedented showcase for the clean energy options available to individuals, businesses and the government,…

— Gaylord Nelson

The autonomous individual, striving to realize himself and prove his worth, has created all that is great in literature, art, music, science…

— Eric Hoffer

Consider the matter dispassionately, Mr. Foster, and you will see that no offence is so heinous as unorthodoxy of behaviour. Murder kills…

— Aldous Huxley

Scuttle no small plans. They have no magic to stir single issue individuals into a group of people against everything.

— Daniel Burnham

A mathematician is an individual who believes that prophesying that his dog will die if he deprives it of food constitutes a…

— Bill Gaede

The right to have children should be a marketable commodity, bought and traded by individuals but absolutely limited by the state.

— Kenneth E. Boulding

As individual fingers we can easily be broken, but all together we make a mighty fist.

— Sitting Bull

My upbringing involves individuals who helped me along the way. I don't think I would be here today without that support.

— Dwyane Wade

Under democracy, individual liberty of opinion and action is jealously guarded.

— Mahatma Gandhi

The productivity of social cooperation surpasses in every respect the sum total of the production of isolated individuals.

— Ludwig von Mises

Sensuality is the total mobilization of the senses: an individual observes his partner intently, straining to catch every sound.

— Milan Kundera

Worry is discounting possible future sorrows so that the individual may have present misery.

— William George Jordan

I would not have you exchange the gold of individual Christianity for the base metal of Christian Socialism.

— Charles Spurgeon

Society in its full sense . . . is never an entity separable from the individuals who compose it.

— Ruth Benedict

Experience has taught me that any kind of political grouping is oppressive. It's the blind mass that crushes the individual.

— Gao Xingjian

The trade of governing has always been monopolized by the most ignorant and the most rascally individuals of mankind.

— Thomas Paine

... the self respect of individuals ought to make them demand of their leaders conformity with an agreed-upon code of ethics and…

— Mary Barnett Gilson

It requires two indiscreet persons to institute a quarrel; one individual cannot quarrel alone.

— Aime Martin

There is no meaningful yes unless the individual could also have said no.

— Rollo May