Individual Quotes · Page 109

When people feel their insignificance as individual persons, they also suffer an undermining of their sense of human responsibility.

— Rollo May

Politics [is] the art of achieving the maximum amount of freedom for individuals that is consistent with the maintenance of social order.

— Anonymous

I as an individual can always take a joke on me, big time, there's no doubt on that.

— Kiku Sharda

The individual cannot bargain with the State. The State recognizes no coinage but power: and it issues the coins itself.

— Ursula K. Le Guin

Few things are more important to each individual's future success or to our nation's prosperity than education.

— Mark Kennedy

Unlimited competition leads to a huge waste of labor, and to that crippling of the social consciousness of individuals.

— Albert Einstein

No longer were there individual destinies; only a collective destiny, made of plague and emotions shared by all.

— Albert Camus

...our species is one, and each of the individuals who compose it are entitled to equal moral consideration.

— Michael Ignatieff

One exemplary act may affect one life, or even millions of lives. All those who set standards for themselves, who strengthen the…

— John W. Gardner

Speculative stock movements are carried too far in both directions, frequently in the general market and at all times in at least…

— Benjamin Graham

The very variety arising from the union of numbers of individuals is the highest good which social life can confer, and this…

— Wilhelm von Humboldt

I would say the biggest handicap we have right now is some nutcases in our country that don't believe in global warming.…

— Jimmy Carter

All religions, arts and sciences are branches of the same tree. All these aspirations are directed toward ennobling man's life, lifting it…

— Albert Einstein

. . . woman is a being dominated by the creative urge and . . . no understanding of her as an…

— Beatrice M. Hinkle

The North has no interest in the particular Negro, but talks of justice for the whole. The South has not interest, and…

— Zora Neale Hurston

If the history of the Day of Atonement has anything to say to us now it is: never relieve individuals of moral…

— Jonathan Sacks

Unless a man has the talents to make something of himself, freedom is an irksome burden. We join a mass movement to…

— Eric Hoffer

Picking winners among the many young companies seeking money is a tough business, even for the most sophisticated investors. Indeed, most professionally…

— Steven Rattner

Our thoughts and prayers continue to go out to every individual who was affected by these powerful storms, ... Despite facing serious…

— Steve Largent

The Prussian Academy of Sciences is a fast-track academic institute that requires a proactive, hands-on-type individual to overthrow the Newtonian conception of…

— Albert Einstein

We have an obligation to imagine. It is easy to pretend that nobody can change anything, that we are in a world…

— Neil Gaiman

This whole society, up to now, has been very violent with the individual. It does not believe in the individual; it is…

— Rajneesh

There is a legitimate concern about wealth distribution in the United States, but the answer is not to scapegoat any individual who…

— Conrad Black

It becomes all therefore who are friends of a Government based on free principles to reflect, that by denying the possibility of…

— James Madison

I love the medium and I love individual comics, but the business is nothing I would be proud of.

— Daniel Clowes

I believe that there is a bipartisan consensus to have individual mandates.

— Chuck Grassley

A self-willed man obeys a different law, the one law I, too, hold absolutely sacred the human law in himself, his own…

— Bruce Lee

The uneducated person perceives only the individual phenomenon, the partly educated person the rule, and the educated person the exception.

— Franz Grillparzer

Proverbs, words, and grammar inflections convey the public sense with more purity and precision, than the wisest individual.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

If the individual has a right to govern himself, all external government is tyranny. Hence the necessity of abolishing the State.

— Benjamin Tucker

God is each truly and exalted thing, therefore the individual himself to the highest degree. But are not nature and the world…

— Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

Society is not just the product of its individual members; it is also the product of its constituent groups.

— Clay Shirky

There is no justification for taking away individuals' freedom in the guise of public safety.

— Thomas Jefferson

I'm curious by individuals that embrace half a story so they can justify how incomplete they feel about their own self worth.

— Dane Cook

No individual or company, no matter how large or how profitable, is above the law.

— Eric Holder

I'm at the point in my career where to be a winner is more important than any individual things.

— Chili Davis

Individual consciences are fine but individual consciences have to be made manifest.

— Hillary Clinton

Love is something that is very personal to each individual based on where they are in their lives. It fluctuates and changes…

— Paul Wesley

We have to deal with the 11 million individuals who are here illegally. The bill that Senator [Marco] Rubio put forward, I…

— Barack Obama

Implicit in the banking concept is the assumption of a dichotomy between human beings and the world: a person is merely in…

— Paulo Freire