Individual Quotes · Page 57

Democracy without respect for individual rights sucks. It's just ganging up against the weird kid, and I'm always the weird kid.

— Penn Jillette

The individual will always be a minority. If a man is in a minority of one, we lock him up.

— Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr

The business of a poet is to examine not the individual but the species; to remark general properties and large appearances.

— Samuel Johnson

The simple step of a courageous individual is not to take part in the lie. "One word of truth outweighs the world.

— Anonymous

In those rare individual cases where women approach genius they also approach masculinity.

— Otto Weininger

In individuals as in nations, contentment is silent, which tends to unbalance the historical record.

— Anonymous

A ballerina takes steps given to her and makes them her own. Each individual brings something different to the same role,

— Maria Tallchief

Sometimes people fail to see that individual decisions have universal consequences.

— Yaya Toure

It is precisely because neither individuals nor small groups can be fully self-sufficient that cooperation is necessary to human survival and flourishing.

— Tom G. Palmer

Mainstream media's representation, or its guerrilla decontextualization, of black men's lives in particular can set the stage for erroneous assumptions capable of…

— Aberjhani

I was open to anything. That doesn't mean I would do anything, it just means I was open to anything. I've met…

— Skylar Astin

At its most basic, the spiritual is the experience of the connectedness that underlies reality. The depth of that experience depends on…

— Arthur J. Deikman

Where execution is dominant, as it is in the individual events of a war whether great or small, then intellectual factors are…

— Carl von Clausewitz

Since anti-racist individuals did not control mass media, the media became the primary tool that would be used and is still used…

— Bell Hooks

It offended his sense of himself, because he was an individual from an age of individuals, and a string of lights was,…

— Jonathan Franzen

Any individual is capable of realizing the truth at any time. No tradition is necessary, no chain, no lineage. Once you have…

— Frederick Lenz

I stand by my assertions that although you can know what happens to any individual species that you modify, you cannot be…

— Bill Nye

Today, no one would dispute that information technology has become the backbone of commerce. It underpins the operations of individual companies, ties…

— Nicholas G. Carr

Within the new self-help books for women, patriarachy and male domination are rarely identified as forces that lead to the oppression, exploitation,…

— Bell Hooks

Although as a rule the absurd culminates, and it seems impossible for the voice of the individual ever to penetrate through the…

— Arthur Schopenhauer

Freedom of religion, as the Founding Fathers saw it, was not just the right to associate oneself with a certain denomination but…

— Norman Cousins

I can tell by my own reaction to it that this book is harmful." But let him only wait and perhaps one…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

Millennials are an easy group to identify in terms of their appearance and are therefore highly subject to being stereotyped. When a…

— Chip Espinoza

There are at least two distinct meanings of 'hot': there is the, like, normal human definition which is that 'this individual seems…

— John Green

A successful social technique consists perhaps in finding unobjectionable means for individual self-assertion.

— Eric Hoffer

I focus on the individual and not seeing this great big monster, 'the press.'

— Marianne Faithfull

To me, poetry is about survival first of all. Survival of the individual self, survival of the emotional life.

— Gregory Orr

I must admit that I personally measure success in terms of the contributions an individual makes to her or his fellow human…

— Margaret Mead

As an individual, I have no fear of failure... I think that translates on-screen in my performances.

— Taapsee Pannu

I'm really inspired by the power of the individual. People like Gloria Steinem.

— Abbi Jacobson

old grudges and bitterness always hurt the individual more than the one whom he believes injured him.

— Elizabeth Chandler

In the highest government office, you have to be ready to bow out at any time, otherwise you are not a free…

— Jean-Claude Juncker

Once an individual's search for meaning is successful, it not only renders him happy but also gives him the capability to cope…

— Viktor E. Frankl

In Socrates' thought the two marks of individual self-consciousness appear; it is practical and it is social.

— James Mark Baldwin

Experience and enthusiasm are two fine business attributes seldom found in one individual.

— William Feather

There are no absolutes in golf. Golf is such an individual game, and no two people swing alike.

— Kathy Whitworth

The creative individual is particularly gifted in seeing the gap between what is and what could be.

— John W. Gardner

The experience of the individual has become the experience of the people, thanks solely to the camera.

— Joseph Goebbels

I detest audiences. Not in their individual components but en masse... I think they are a force of evil.

— Glenn Gould

Let individuals create real wealth, empower them, create something that they can leave for their children.

— John Sununu