Individual Quotes · Page 53

The only way to find out why someone decides to engage in armed combat is to look at their individual personality.

— Salman Rushdie

Wth subtly developed body awareness, it is possible for the individual to become the conscious orchestrator of health.

— Jean Houston

I don't want to extend my career for individual records. This is the time to go.

— Kumar Sangakkara

Perhaps the surest test of an individual's integrity is his refusal to do or say anything that would damage his self-respect.

— Thomas S. Monson

The federal government may not disarm individual citizens without some unusually strong justification.

— Laurence Tribe

Only the individual can decide what level of risk she can tolerate and what level of freedom she's willing to sacrifice for…

— Park Dietz

The free state offers what a police state denies - the privacy of the home, the dignity and peace of mind of…

— William O. Douglas

Two things are necessary, the development of individuality and the participation of the individual in a truly social life.

— Maria Montessori

... the outcome of the Clarence Thomas hearings and his subsequent appointment to the Supreme Court shows how misguided, narrow notions of…

— Bell Hooks

It's difficult to say what's luck and what's not because everything depends on what you learn along the way, and that depends…

— Chloe Rose Lattanzi

Nonviolence is a method that transforms, first of all, the individual once you understand it and embrace it. It begins with you…

— Coretta Scott King

Melancholy has ceased to be an individual phenomenon, an exception. It has become the class privilege of the wage earner, a mass…

— Gunter Grass

Let pessimism once take hold of the mind, and life is all topsy-turvy, all vanity and vexation of spirit. There is no…

— Helen Keller

Tell you what.' Alec reached for a second seraph blade. 'We live through this, and I promise I'll introduce you to my…

— Cassandra Clare

I believe I know why it is satisfying to me to hear someone. When I can really hear someone, it puts me…

— Carl Rogers

Many ... have tremendous God-given gifts, but they don't focus on the development of those gifts. Who are these individuals? You've never…

— John Wooden

Nations are beginning to look to some vague organization, some nebulous course of humanity, to pay their bills and tell them what…

— Calvin Coolidge

Men of widely divergent views in our own country live in peace together because they share certain common aspirations which are more…

— Dwight D. Eisenhower

I would say about individuals, A Individual dies when they cease to to be surprised. I am surprised every morning when I…

— Abraham Joshua Heschel

I think it all comes back to the individual. My instrument's just a pile of metal and wood! If you listen to…

— Stefon Harris

To be a photographer is to become aware of visible appearances and at the same time acquire from them an education in…

— Raoul Hausmann

There is no English equivalent for the French word flâneur. Cassell's dictionary defines flâneur as a stroller, saunterer, drifter but none of…

— Cornelia Otis Skinner

It is not simply the individual who benefits from and is protected by rights, but the society as a whole. Protected freedoms…

— David Wong

It seems to me that the evidence ... is opposed to the view that the spirals are individual galaxies comparable with our…

— Harlow Shapley

What each individual wills is obstructed by everyone else, and what emerges is something that no one willed.

— Friedrich Engels

I think it is in the nature of individuals and individual entities not to self-correct.

— Ray Dalio

The standpoint of the man who relies on religious experience for capturing Reality must always remain individual and incommunicable.

— Muhammad Iqbal

Individual rights are not subject to a public vote; a majority has no right to vote away the rights of a minority.

— Ayn Rand

[Freedom is] the societal condition that exists when every individual has 100% control of his own property.

— Andrew Joseph Galambos

Through persistence numerous individuals win accomplishment out of what appeared bound to be sure disappointment.

— Benjamin Disraeli

The technologies that raise the fewest ethical problems are those that work on a human scale, brightening the lives of individual people.

— Freeman Dyson

If there is no peace in the minds of individuals, how can there be peace in the world? Make peace in your…

— S. N. Goenka

Claiming for ourselves liberty of conscience, liberty to worship, we shall see to it that every other individual enjoys the same right.

— James Larkin

The baggage in your individual life will weigh down your married life. Do something about it.

— Ted Lowe

Obamacare won't just bankrupt the country. It may bankrupt small businesses. It may bankrupt individuals.

— Rush Limbaugh

Art appreciation, like love, cannot be done by proxy: It is a very personal affair and is necessary to each individual.

— Robert Henri

I have hope in people, in individuals. Because you don't know what's going to rise from the ruins.

— Joan Baez

The rightful claim to dissent is an existential right of the individual.

— Friedrich Durrenmatt

Swaraj of a people means the sum total of the Swaraj (self-rule) of individuals.

— Mahatma Gandhi

I believe society has a right to defend itself, just as the individual has the right to attack that with which he…

— Naguib Mahfouz