What the expression is intended to mean, I think, is that there is a better and a worse element in the character… — Plato Copy Share Image
Individualism regards man - every man - as an independent, sovereign entity who possesses an inalienable right to his own life, a… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
The only way to find out why someone decides to engage in armed combat is to look at their individual personality. — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
To survive, to avert what we have termed future shock, the individual must become infinitely more adaptable and capable than ever before.… — Alvin Toffler Copy Share Image
We can't rely on others to be our teachers anymorethe future belongs to individuals who decide to become great bosses (and teachers). — Seth Copy Share Image
In the US, voters cast ballots for individual candidates who are not bound to any party program except rhetorically, and not always… — Ben Bagdikian Copy Share Image
Life, it is true, can be grasped in all its confused futility merely by opening one's eyes and sitting passively, a spectator… — Will Self Copy Share Image
Capitalism is a social system based on the recognition of individual rights, including property rights, in which all property is privately owned. — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
War then, is a relation - not between man and man but between state and state and individuals are enemies only accidentally… — Jean-Jacques Rousseau Copy Share Image
Society does not consist of individuals but expresses the sum of interrelations, the relations within which these individuals stand. — Karl Marx Copy Share Image
I think individuals have a right to privacy, but that ought to include the right to prevent private institutions from monitoring what… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
Within the new self-help books for women, patriarachy and male domination are rarely identified as forces that lead to the oppression, exploitation,… — Bell Hooks Copy Share Image
With regard to the freedom of the individual for choice with regard to abortion, there is one individual who is not being… — Ronald Reagan Copy Share Image
Nothing more can be attempted than to establish the beginning and the direction of an infinitely long road. The pretension of any… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
People don't seem to understand that the separation of powers is not about the power of these branches; it's there to protect… — Jonathan Turley Copy Share Image
Stop Looking for Permission to Be Yourself. The true individual is no more concerned over what others may think of him or… — Guy Finley Copy Share Image
Every individual ought to know at least one poet from cover to cover: if not as a guide through the world, then… — Joseph Brodsky Copy Share Image
The words "environment," "medium" denote something more than surroundings which encompass an individual. They denote the specific continuity of the surroundings with… — John Dewey Copy Share Image
[T]he individual in whom the will for the light is strong and clear finds his heart inextricably bound up with the struggle… — Olaf Stapledon Copy Share Image
Newness only becomes mere evil in its totalitarian format, where all the tension between individual and society, that once gave rise to… — Theodor Adorno Copy Share Image
Comparing the three domains, I found that for jobs of all kinds, emotional competencies were twice as prevalent among distinguishing competencies as… — Daniel Goleman Copy Share Image
Bureaucracies tend to grow and to brag about their growth based on how many individuals they have and how much money they… — Darrell Issa Copy Share Image
The point of the adversity is to toughen your mind so that you can handle difficult circumstances in life. Your mind, toughen… — Robert Greene Copy Share Image
Growing up, I didn't have a lot of toys, and personal entertainment depended on individual ingenuity and imagination - think up a… — Terry Brooks Copy Share Image
President Obama said, oh, we want to make insurance perfect for people, but he added all these regulatory mandates, made it too… — Rand Paul Copy Share Image
I love the relays. Track is such an individual sport, so it's fun to do something together. — Allyson Felix Copy Share Image
And all of you, all your lives, should be telling those of us in the media leadership positions to tell the whole… — Geneva Overholser Copy Share Image
Sometimes people fail to see that individual decisions have universal consequences. — Yaya Toure Copy Share Image
I think it is in the nature of individuals and individual entities not to self-correct. — Ray Dalio Copy Share Image
Behavioral change is more important than individual product choices. They both have a role to play. — John Elkington Copy Share Image
It's a curious thing, this thing we call civilization...we think it is an affair of epochs, and nations. It's really an affair… — William Dean Howells Copy Share Image
Spending $1 for a brand new house would feel very, very good. Spending $1,000 for a ham sandwich would feel very, very… — Jeffrey Kluger Copy Share Image
Participatory culture shifts the focus of literacy from one of individual expression to community involvement. — Henry Jenkins Copy Share Image
Each individual work serves as an expression of our most personal state of mind at that particular moment and of the inescapable,… — Lyonel Feininger Copy Share Image
Graphomania (a mania for writing books) inevitably takes on epidemic proportions when a society develops to the point of creating three basic… — Milan Kundera Copy Share Image
The primary goal of collectivism - of socialism in Europe and contemporary liberalism in America - is to enlarge governmental supervision of… — George Will Copy Share Image
Each member of society can have only a small fraction of the knowledge possessed by all, and...each is therefore ignorant of most… — Friedrich August von Hayek Copy Share Image
You're very in tune with, because actors are all different, and it's very tricky when you throw us all together because we… — Charlize Theron Copy Share Image
Why have we had such a decline in moral climate? I submit to you that a major factor has been a change… — Milton Friedman Copy Share Image