What are the American ideals? They are the development of the individual for his own and the common good; the development of… — Louis D. Brandeis Copy Share Image
Like paths and alleys overgrown with hardy, rank-growing weeds, the words we use are overgrown with our individual, private, provincial associations, which… — Stefan Themerson Copy Share Image
I've worked in the prison system, on death row and maximum security. I did that work for six years. I've worked with… — Joan Halifax Copy Share Image
At this level, the individual perceives the maintenance of the expectations of his family, group, or nation as valuable in its own… — Lawrence Kohlberg Copy Share Image
I am amazed by how many individuals mess up every new day with yesterday. They insist on bringing into today the failures… — Gary Chapman Copy Share Image
Morandi suggests we are all single in this world, hoping for independent repose. But our best opportunity for a community of excellence… — Wayne Thiebaud Copy Share Image
Social bonds have given way under the collapse of social protections and the attack on the welfare state. Moreover, all solutions to… — Henry Giroux Copy Share Image
Simple, easy actions can protect the health of our water resources and help save drinking water supplies. There is not one individual… — Ian Kiernan Copy Share Image
I like that there are so many different ways of looking at the world and I like all of the particular narratives.… — Rebecca Goldstein Copy Share Image
The results of life are uncalculated and uncalculable. The years teach much which the days never know. The persons who compose our… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
If our spiritual past is somber and painful, let us try to simplify it, by acquiring true dedications that will assist us… — Chico Xavier Copy Share Image
Existentialist philosophy recognizes the existence of the individual as the real purpose of human life. The recognition is basically atheistic and it… — Goparaju Ramachandra Rao Copy Share Image
There's one logical generational difference and that is that young women will have more chances to support a female president than older… — Gloria Steinem Copy Share Image
The truth is impossible to comprehend even when one is willing to tell it. For the truth resides in memory and memory… — Frank Hardy Copy Share Image
The doctrine called Philosophical Necessity is simply this: that, given the motives which are present to an individual's mind, and given likewise… — John Stuart Mill Copy Share Image
I started wrestling at ten. I played a lot of other sports: soccer, football. I really enjoyed skiing. But wrestling just took… — Randy Couture Copy Share Image
Clothes and jewellery should be startling, individual. When you see a woman in my clothes, you want to know more about them.… — Alexander McQueen Copy Share Image
It is because every individual knows little and, in particular, because we rarely know which of us knows best best that we… — Friedrich August von Hayek Copy Share Image
However fiercely opposed one may be to the present order, an old respect for the idea of order itself often prevents people… — Antonin Artaud Copy Share Image
I won't use abortion as a litmus test with a pro-choice individual. Someone that is an activist on the abortion issue, I… — Ken Buck Copy Share Image
When the narrator feels like an octopus, when he says his limbs are starting to multiply, he means he has inklings of… — Ben Lerner Copy Share Image
To find out what is truly individual in ourselves, profound reflection is needed; and suddenly we realize how uncommonly difficult the discovery… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I can only say that one's individual situation is more real and important to oneself than the devastations of fates and empires… — Isaac Rosenberg Copy Share Image
Everyone is an ocean inside. Every individual walking the street. Everyone is a universe of thoughts, and insights, and feelings. But every… — Khaled Hosseini Copy Share Image
Can individual psychic wounds really heal in an abusive and fragmented society? Audre Lorde has a poem which begins, "What do we… — Adrienne Rich Copy Share Image
A father acts on behalf of his children by working, providing, intervening, struggling, and suffering for them. In so doing, he really… — Dietrich Bonhoeffer Copy Share Image
We in the West seem to have made a fetish out of complete individual self-sufficiency, of not needing help, of being completely… — Carl Rogers Copy Share Image
The individual may be understood as one particular focal point at which the whole universe expresses itself - as an incarnation of… — Alan Watts Copy Share Image
In the civil society, the individual is recognized and accepted as more than an abstract statistic or faceless member of some group;… — Mark Levin Copy Share Image
When I recall today my early youth, I should take the boy that I then was, with the exception of a few… — Ernst Mach Copy Share Image
The symbolic significance of individual athletes' achievements has sometimes proved more productive than the negotiations of diplomats or politicians. — Richard Attias Copy Share Image
For every individual who really is exceptional there are about fifty thousand who just imagine they are - until it's too late,… — Gwethalyn Graham Copy Share Image
The crucial thing is to arouse the awareness that as a matter of human conscience we can never permit the people of… — Daisaku Ikeda Copy Share Image
eBay had two main things that really spoke to me. It enabled individuals to do things that they could not have done… — Meg Whitman Copy Share Image
Whereas the only real solution to the race problem in this country is a solution that involves individual self improvement and collective… — Malcolm X Copy Share Image
Individual societies begin in harmonious adaptation to the environment and, like individuals, quickly get trapped into nonadaptive, artificial, repetitive sequences. — Timothy Leary Copy Share Image
If I have any merit, it is getting along with individuals, according to their ways and characteristics. At times it involves suppressing… — J. R. D. Tata Copy Share Image
Like stories, people have individual lives, and are all caught up in this murky thing. All of them have the best intentions.… — Anton Corbijn Copy Share Image
Are you truly doing what's best for the nation, what's best for the Army, what's best for your unit, and what's best… — Richard A. Kidd Copy Share Image
Our culture has created two almost irreconcilable descriptions of a 'good woman.' The first is the individual achiever; the second, the self-sacrificing… — Martha Beck Copy Share Image