Individual Quotes · Page 39

Smitten as we are with the vision of social righteousness, a God indifferent to everything but adulation, and full of partiality for…

— William James

Collectivism means the subjugation of the individual to a group - whether to a race, class or state does not matter. Collectivism…

— Ayn Rand

We must not descend to the level of those who perpetrated Tuesday's violence by targeting individuals based on their race, their religion,…

— John Ashcroft

Christian holiness is not a matter of painstaking conformity to the individual precepts of an external law code; it is rather a…

— F. F. Bruce

There's good stuff and bad stuff, but you continue on. I'm not prescriptive - I cannot tell anyone else what to do…

— Annie Lennox

Jews, black people - any people who are hated or who have suffered, either as individuals or as a people - use…

— Sarah Silverman

The fact that Universal Jurisdiction exists in relation to serious international crimes does convey two important aspects of the global reality: first,…

— Richard A. Falk

I remain optimistic that ultimately free speech and a free press where individuals have access to the dialogue will have a self-correcting…

— Al Gore

A work of art has no importance whatever to society. It is only important to the individual, and only the individual reader…

— Vladimir Nabokov

There is nothing settled in manners, but the laws of behavior yield to the energy of the individual.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

Men's competitive team sports focus on the balance between individual achievement and team achievement with the emphasis on team achievement.

— Warren Farrell

Peace is not so much a political mandate as it is a shared state of consciousness that remains elevated and intact only…

— Aberjhani

Finally it should be the earnest wish and paramount aim of the military administration to win the confidence, respect, and affection of…

— William McKinley

A man stands alone at the plate. This is the time for what? For individual achievement. There he stands alone. But in…

— David Mamet

Bodily pain affects man as a whole down to the deepest layers of his moral being. It forces him to face again…

— Pope Pius XII

Man has no individual i. But there are, instead, hundreds and thousands of separate small "i"s, very often entirely unknown to one…

— Anonymous

Beneath the surface of states and nations, ideas and language, lies the fate of individual human beings in need. Answering their needs…

— Kofi Annan

All corporatism – even when practised in societies where hard work, enterprise and cooperation are as highly valued as in Korea –…

— Margaret Thatcher

Politics and the affairs of State are dissociated from the orbit of the individual, and in so far as they cannot be…

— John Carroll

To change man, the audience by which he judges himself must be changed. A man is defined by his audience: by the…

— Luke Rhinehart

Never underestimate the ability of a small group of committed individuals to change the world.

— Margaret Mead

The structure of human betterment cannot be built upon foundations of materialism or business, but upon the bedrock of individual character in…

— Herbert Hoover

A man sets out to draw the world. As the years go by, he peoples a space with images of provinces, kingdoms,…

— Jorge Luis Borges

Building community is to the collective as spiritual practice is to the individual.

— Grace Lee Boggs

[My work] just develops and develops, and I'm very nicely served by the universe: just as I'm ready to take the conversation…

— Tilda Swinton