A culture is not the anonymous product of undifferentiate d masses, but the sum of the intellectual achievements of individual men. — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
I'm always trying to ask myself both "Who am I as an individual?" and "What are the cultural forces that have made… — Alison Hawthorne Deming Copy Share Image
Today we are rightly in an era of disarmament and dismantlement of nuclear weapons. But in some countries nuclear weapons development still… — Hans Bethe Copy Share Image
Loyalty is very important when things get a little tough, as they often do when the challenge is great. Loyalty is a… — John Wooden Copy Share Image
Real results will emerge when we realize the power of combined individual actions and voices to effect change. — Achim Steiner Copy Share Image
A system of limitless individual choices, with respect to communications, is not necessarily in the interest of citizenship and self-government. — Cass Sunstein Copy Share Image
Those laws, being forged for universal application, are in perpetual conflict with personal interest, just as personal interest is always in contradiction… — Marquis de Sade Copy Share Image
The competition between human beings destroys with cold and diabolic brutality... Under the pressure of this competitive fury we have not only… — Konrad Lorenz Copy Share Image
The social potential movement is on the threshold of a mass awakening, seeking to carry into society what individuals have learned spiritually… — Barbara Marx Hubbard Copy Share Image
We're seeing a decline in religion in North America but, I hope, a rise in individual spirituality. Whatever that means to people. — Lori Lansens Copy Share Image
Every politician, clergyman, educator, or physician, in short, anyone dealing with human individuals, is bound to make grave mistakes if he ignores… — Ernst Mayr Copy Share Image
People in the individual marketplace should have more options. The plan that we - the discussion draft that we have out, actually… — John Thune Copy Share Image
Life was so short that it meant nothing at all unless it were continually reinforced by something that endured; unless the shadows… — Willa Cather Copy Share Image
The feeling for what ought and ought not to be grows and dies like a tree, and no fertilizer of any kind… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
The most dangerous aspect of present-day life is the dissolution of the feeling of individual responsibility. Mass solitude has done away with… — Eugenio Montale Copy Share Image
[Adolf Hitler] was very close-mouthed, he was the most private individual I have ever seen, very secretive. — Gretl Braun Copy Share Image
I really think for the good of this world that, if I could have it my way, the whole world would be… — Davey Havok Copy Share Image
Through intense deep meditation you reach a state that is beyond thought, beyond change, beyond imagination, beyond differences and duality. Once you… — Swami Muktananda Copy Share Image
To learn to see- to accustom the eye to calmness, to patience, and to allow things to come up to it; to… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
We are free, in the West, to choose; we have real choice to pursue our own desires; we are free to set… — Ibn Warraq Copy Share Image
Every man has a mob self and an individual self, in varying proportions. — D. H. Lawrence Copy Share Image
There is economics in biology, nothing is free, everything has to be paid for, there are costs as well as benefits to… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
Tying the little folks with the older folks is a great and powerful tool to preserve and to protect the family and… — Alex Haley Copy Share Image
I hate the assumption that once you're committed to someone you stop treating each other like individuals. I like getting up knowing… — Susan Sarandon Copy Share Image
Truth, purity, and unselfishness wherever these are present, there is no power below or above the sun to crush the possessor thereof.… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
None of the individual metal hunks of an airplane have the property of flight, but when they are attached together in the… — David Eagleman Copy Share Image
Through my travels, I find inspiration in street style and how young women create their individual looks and identity. — Maria Sharapova Copy Share Image
What would you think of a person who earned $24,000 a year but spent $35,000? Suppose on top of that, he was… — John Stossel Copy Share Image
But the most important lesson I have learned in my twenty years or research on morality is that nearly all people are… — Jonathan Haidt Copy Share Image
"Freedom, individualism, authenticity and being yourself so long as you don't hurt another's physical person or property: The creative process is the… — Carl Rogers Copy Share Image
There is no justification for taking away individuals' freedom in the guise of public safety. — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
You know what? You're an individual, and that makes people nervous. And it's gonna keep making people nervous for the rest of… — Louise Fitzhugh Copy Share Image
When I was a kid, I used to listen to my Emerson radio late at night under the covers. I started by… — Frankie Valli Copy Share Image
Freedom is neither a legal invention nor a philosophical conquest, the cherished possession of civilizations more valid than others because they alone… — Claude Levi-Strauss Copy Share Image
I should like to begin with a philosophical comment. I do not think that when one is speaking of hardships or benefits… — John James Cowperthwaite Copy Share Image
If we ourselves remain angry and then sing world peace, it has little meaning. First, our individual self must learn peace. This… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Political violence is organized violence on the top which creates individual violence at the bottom. — Emma Goldman Copy Share Image
A lot of luck, and being prepared when the opportunity came. There are talented individuals out there who didn't get the break… — Donald Faison Copy Share Image