I specialize in what the French call la petite histoire. I…

Many individuals spend a considerable portion of their lifetimes in terror of one imagined catastrophe or another. The classic is that your immortal soul…

— L. Neil Smith

“Every select man strives instinctively for a citadel and a privacy, where he is FREE from the crowd, the many, the majority-- where he…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

The strains and stresses suffered by the individual in society are grounded in the normal functioning of that society (and of the individual!) rather…

— Herbert Marcuse

Politics is about power. It is about the power of the state. It is about the power of the state as applied to individuals,…

— Kevin Rudd

Why do we love certain homes, and why do they seem to love us? It is the warmth of our individual hearts reflected in…

— T. H. Robsjohn-Gibbings

When the first Superman movie came out I was frequently asked "What is a hero?" ...My answer was that a hero is someone who…

— Christopher Reeve

In comparative terms, there's no poverty in America by a long shot. Heritage Foundation political scientist Robert Rector has worked up figures showing that…

— P. J. O'Rourke

Nations, like individuals, interest us in their growth.

— Walter Savage Landor

[Sport officials] blocked their support of us. But those individuals [ Muhammad Ali, the Jim Browns, the Bill Russells, Kareem Abdul Jabbar ] were…

— John Carlos

Popular culture as a whole is popular, but in today's fragmented market it's a jostle of competing unpopular popular cultures. As the critic Stanley…

— Mark Steyn

The State must act as the guardian of a millennial future in the face of which the wishes and the selfishness of the individual…

— Adolf Hitler

If it comes to a question of law, the charges they brought against me - the Espionage Act - is called the quintessential political…

— Edward Snowden

The individual, by means of the discipline imposed on him by sport, not only plays and finds relaxation from the various compulsions to which…

— Jacques Ellul

Youre always going to have some individual incidents that arent going to show off the Ryder Cup in the true form and spirit that…

— Tom Kite

The self is defined psychologically as the psychic totality of the individual. Anything that a [person] postulates as being a greater totality than [oneself]…

— Carl Jung