Individual Quotes · Page 60

Beauty is self-defined, perceived and understood without ambiguity. It's the stuff that lies under the skins of our individual existences.

— Terence McKenna

Any altruistic system is inherently unstable, because it is open to abuse by selfish individuals, ready to exploit it.

— Richard Dawkins

Strength is derived from unity. The range of our collective vision is far greater when individual insights become one.

— Andrew Carnegie

Revolution will free society of its afflictions, while science will free the individual of his.

— Mario Vargas Llosa

The only fruitful promise of which the life of any individual or any nation can be possessed, is a promise determined by…

— Herbert Croly

The well-being of individual persons in any society varies inversely with the money at the disposal of the political class.

— Edmund A. Opitz

The personal pronoun "I" should be the coat of arms of some individuals.

— Antoine Rivarol

To accomplish artistic work, of any individual worth, nature must be seen through the medium of the artist's intellectual emotions.

— Gertrude Kasebier

Individuals seem to have reached their walls and so has the entire human race. Whatever isn't working, isn't life-producing, isn't producing love…

— Marianne Williamson

The first duty of man is to take none of the principles of conduct upon trust; to do nothing without a clear…

— William Godwin

You don't have to be like everybody else or do things like everybody else. God created you to be a unique individual,…

— Joyce Meyer

At the heart of each of us, whatever our imperfections, there exists a silence pulse of perfect rhythm which is absolutely individual…

— George Leonard

I deliberately went to boarding school. It was my choice. My mum was abroad and I wanted to wean myself off being…

— Alice Englert

Images break with a small ping, their destruction is as wonderful as their being, they are essentially instruments of torture exploding through…

— E. L. Doctorow

If a well-constituted individual refrains from blazoning aught amiss or calamitous in his family, a nation in the like circumstance may without…

— Herman Melville

It is widely believed that interpersonal relationships of an intimate kind are the chief, if not the only, source of human happiness,…

— Anthony Storr

Society is to the individual what the sun and showers are to the seed. It develops him, expands him, unfolds him, calls…

— Orison Swett Marden

The most basic principle to being a free American is the notion that we as individuals are responsible for our own lives…

— Ron Paul

But our society - unlike most in the world - presupposes that freedom and liberty are in a frame of reference that…

— William O. Douglas

The price of peace is righteousness. Men and nations may loudly proclaim, 'Peace, peace,' but there shall be no peace until individuals…

— Ezra Taft Benson

Deep within the individual is a vast reservoir of untapped power awaiting to be used. no person can have the use of…

— Norman Vincent Peale

Communist regimes were not some unfortunate aberration, some historical deviation from a socialist ideal. They were the ultimate expression, unconstrained by democratic…

— Margaret Thatcher

A country is strong which consists of wealthy families, every member of whom is interested in defending a common treasure; it is…

— Honore de Balzac

She wished some help would come from outside. But in the whole world there was no help. Society was terrible because it…

— D. H. Lawrence

Sometimes when God brings things into an individual's life, it makes them totally depend on Him.

— Andrae Crouch

There is a dharma for yourself, for someone else, for a family, for a nation, for a universe. There are collective and…

— Frederick Lenz

The individual's whole experience is built upon the plan of his language.

— Henri Delacroix

A free society, to be truly worthy of that name, owes healthy, competent individuals the right to end their lives on their…

— Jacob M. Appel

Big banks have long had private equity divisions that put up capital for deals too complex or risky for individual shareholders to…

— Alex Berenson

As a Christian, as an individual, as a doctor, I am absolutely opposed to the death penalty.

— Joycelyn Elders

In the American soul there is a lonely individual standing in a vast landscape.

— Don DeLillo

You can pretty much trace when the big individual indebtedness kicked in, and it was when the credit card became generally available.

— Margaret Atwood

I believe we would be happier to have a personal revolution in our individual lives and go back to simpler living and…

— Laura Ingalls Wilder

It's foolish to be prejudiced. There are so many reasons to hate people on an individual basis.

— Dennis Miller

When creative individuals are given a stage, they have the power to advance humanity

— Pharrell Williams

Freedom across the world is a result of many individuals working together.

— Dan Gable

In a competitive world of limited resources, total freedom of individual action is intolerable

— Garrett Hardin

With nations as with individuals our interests soundly calculated will ever be found inseparable from our moral duties.

— Thomas Jefferson

In the world of literature, I see prizes as more of a duty to the craft itself, rather than as something for…

— Wole Soyinka

Every individual is a unique manifestation of the Whole, as every branch is a particular outreaching of the tree.

— Anonymous