Individual Quotes · Page 48

If individuals can be born again, why can't cities, made up of many individuals, be born again?

— C. Wagner

Society does not exist for itself, but for the individual; and man goes into it, not to lose, but to find himself.

— Phillips Brooks

It is my ambition to be, as a private individual, abolished and voided from history, leaving it markless.

— William Faulkner

I believe that accessories should bring color and texture to an every day wardrobe based on each individual's sense of style.

— Kate Spade

A schoolteacher or professor cannot educate individuals, he educates only species.

— Georg C. Lichtenberg

The real basic power of an individual isn't what he or she knows; it's the ability to think and learn and face…

— Nathaniel Branden

Behavioral change is more important than individual product choices. They both have a role to play.

— John Elkington

We use eating as a medium for social relationships: satisfaction of the most individual of needs becomes a means of creating community.

— Margaret Visser

Psychology is the science of psychic states both as to content and form, regarded from an objective standpoint, and brought in relation…

— Boris Sidis

The essential nature of a democracy compels it to insist that individual power of all kinds, political, economic, or intellectual, shall not…

— Herbert Croly

You have always had individual directors who begin in the advertising or commercial world, but they are probably exceptions rather than the…

— Ann Macbeth

The problem with the old ideology was that it suppressed the individual by starting with society. But it is from a sense…

— Tony Blair

An individual man is a fruit which it cost all the foregoing ages to form and ripen. He is strong, not to…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

Peaceful secession and nullification are the only means of returning to a system of government that respects rather than destroys individual liberty.

— Thomas DiLorenzo

"All government in essence," says Emerson, "is tyranny." It matters not whether it is government by divine right or majority rule. In…

— Emma Goldman

Each of us has some change within us, we cannot change the political or the social system of the world unless we…

— Ziggy Marley

We need to build millions of little moments of caring on an individual level. Indeed, as talk of a politics of meaning…

— Michael Lerner

She is all the great heroines of the world in one. She is more than an individual. I love her, and I…

— Oscar Wilde

In our most Puritan of society, gambling-like other pleasures-is either taxed, restricted to certain hours, or forbidden altogether. Yet the impulse to…

— Richard Arnold Epstein

Most of the scientists I have known well have felt - just as deeply as the non-scientists I have known well -…

— C.P. Snow

For a man is a little lower than the angels, yet was made that he might become the companion of the Creative…

— Edgar Cayce

I like to be challenged and stay true to my archetype. That's something I don't admit of being like in real life…

— Romany Malco

Basic characteristics of an individual organism: to divide, to unite, to merge into the universal, to abide in the particular, to transform…

— Anonymous

I seem to be a brief light that flashes but once in all the aeons of time a rare, complicated, and all-too-delicate…

— Alan Watts

Instead of a national curriculum for education, what is really needed is an individual curriculum for every child

— Charles Handy

An individual voice can be heard in a choir that otherwise sings in unison. This is something that is not excused.

— Tahar Ben Jelloun

The moment you have protected an individual, you have protected society.

— Kenneth Kaunda

Individuals carry their success or failure with them. It does not depend on outside conditions.

— Ralph Waldo Trine

I truly believe that we cannot come to a place of reconciliation until there is individual repentance and corporate repentance.

— David Oyelowo

Jazz is about the only form of art existing today in which there is freedom of the individual without the loss of…

— Dave Brubeck

The nation is only as strong as the collective strength of its individuals.

— Jeremiah Denton

As someone who played a team sport, I feel a bit uncomfortable being ranked as an individual so high

— Franz Beckenbauer

Faith in your own powers and confidence in your individual methods are essential to success.

— Roderick E. Stevens

I hate to speak about individuals. Players don't win you trophies, teams win trophies, squads win trophies.

— Jose Mourinho

I sort of thought the framers of the Constitution were talking about the rights of individuals, not corporate entities.

— Sandra Day O'Connor

I specialize in what the French call la petite histoire. I am interested in the individual thumbprint.

— Katherine Anne Porter

Remember always that you have not only the right to be an individual; you have an obligation to be one.

— Eleanor Roosevelt

For change to happen in any community, the initiative must come from the individual.

— Dalai Lama

The Universe does not compensate individuals based on the activity of work, but on the activity of consciousness.

— John Randolph Price

The next major advance in the health of the American people will be determined by what the individual is willing to do…

— John Knowles