Individual Quotes · Page 23

Moreover, I would like to say that the sort of polar inertia we witnessed in the Kosovo War, the polar inertia involving…

— Paul Virilio

Everyone always asks me who my muse is, or who's the girl I have in mind, which is such a hard question…

— Alexander Wang

A State, in idea, is the opposite of a Church. A State regards classes, and not individuals; and it estimates classes, not…

— Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Commercial roadways in communities that lack zoning laws, for example, are often an aesthetic nightmare not because of insufficient competition, and not…

— Bob Frank

Every person has the power to make others happy. Some do it simply by entering a room others by leaving the room.…

— William Arthur Ward

When I'm on the operating table, I'm happy for the surgeon to treat me as a machine, but the moment I return…

— George Pattison

[The ruling elites] know who their enemies are, and their enemies are the people, the people at home and the people abroad.…

— Michael Parenti

Capitalism is based on individual rights - not on the sacrifice of the individual to the 'public good' of the collective.

— Ayn Rand

We all have our individual artistic temperaments as well as partisanships in creative directions. And we have strong opinions on the merits…

— Wole Soyinka

The public has lost the habit of movie-going because the cinema no longer possesses the charm, the hypnotic charisma, the authority it…

— Federico Fellini

In a healthy individual, a broken bone that has healed properly is strongest where it was once broken. You have not lost…

— Yann Martel

Now that we are recognizing more fully the value of the individual, now that management is defining more exactly the function of…

— Mary Parker Follett

Enthusiasm is a vital element toward the individual success of every man or woman.

— Conrad Hilton

I'm growing as an individual, but your always growing. All of my albums are snapshots of where I am artistically.

— Mos Def

The Bible and its teachings helped form the basis for the Founding Fathers' abiding belief in the inalienable rights of the individual,…

— Ronald Reagan

Nothing depends upon the death of an individual, be he ever so great, but much depends upon the freedom of India.

— Mahatma Gandhi

I never write about CIA conspiracies or the FBI or mafia or anything like that because I just don't understand that world.…

— Sophie Hannah

“Those words . . . national and portrait. They were both to do with identity: the identity of a culture (place, language…

— A.S. Byatt

The modern world is one wherein every nation has to develop the strength of which its citizens are capable. The independent status…

— Chiang Kai-shek

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

If not just the brain but the quirks that made the individual were composed of recycled matter only, it was hard to…

— Sebastian Faulks

An image is not simply a trademark, a design, a slogan or an easily remembered picture. It is a studiously crafted personality…

— Daniel J. Boorstin

You can compare it to dreams: you have a very specific and individual pictorial language that you either accept or that you…

— Gerhard Richter

I think that the society and our democracy are mature enough to place emphasis on the quality and the value of the…

— Tsai Ing-wen

I should esteem it the extreme of imprudence to prolong the precarious state of our national affairs, and to expose the Union…

— Alexander Hamilton