Individual Quotes · Page 75

You don't protect any of your individual liberties by lying down and going to sleep.

— John T. Scopes

Every great example of punishment has in it some injustice, but the suffering individual is compensated by the public good.

— Tacitus

Private equity has been the purview of super wealthy individuals and institutions.

— Michael Lee-Chin

Solving new problems is what keeps us moving forward as individuals and as a society, so don't back down.

— Garry Kasparov

The link between rational individual behavior and collectively desirable outcomes is extremely tenuous.

— Robert H. Frank

The organization of society is always and everywhere the unique cause of the crimes committed by individuals.

— Mikhail Bakunin

Knowledge comes, but wisdom lingers, and I linger on the shore, And the individual withers, and the world is more and more.

— Alfred Lord Tennyson

One of the many things I like about baseball is how it combines individual talent and teamsmanship.

— Jed S. Rakoff

Government prohibitions do always more mischief than had been calculated; and it is not without much hesitation that a statesman should hazard…

— Albert Gallatin

It's entirely possible to function as a free-thinking individual without succumbing to narcissism. This can be tricky at times, I suppose, but…

— Tom Robbins

There are people who will think of you in negative ways. You will feel it sometimes. It can actually be physically painful…

— Frederick Lenz

Slavery in the modern world implies the absolute deprivation of the individual's liberty, while possession of weapons and mastery of their use…

— John Keegan

Civilization is to groups what intelligence is to individuals. It is a means of combining the intelligence of many to achieve ongoing…

— Octavia Butler

And to the degree that the individual maintains a show before others that he himself does not believe, he can come to…

— Erving Goffman

Anyone can be a moral individual, concerned with human rights and problems; but only a college professor, a trained expert, can solve…

— Noam Chomsky

We do, and there is a law in the United States - the Torture Convention - that prohibits the United States from…

— Jonathan Shapiro

The fool knows nothing of God; he never comes across anything divine. He remains part of the stupid collectivity. Remember, the society,…

— Rajneesh

The notion that any one person can describe 'what really happened' is an absurdity. If ten - or a hundred - people…

— David Eddings

I'm stoned on my music. I'm intoxicated by my joyful calendar between the tours, and the hunting, and the charity work, and…

— Ted Nugent

We're at an interesting phase of Asian and Asian-American writing, where we might succeed in having readers look at us as creative…

— Karan Mahajan

Moreover, I would like to say that the sort of polar inertia we witnessed in the Kosovo War, the polar inertia involving…

— Paul Virilio

Any individual decisions can be badly thought through, and yet be successful, or exceedingly well thought through, but be unsuccessful, because the…

— Robert Rubin

Equality, in a social sense, may be divided into that of condition, and that of rights. Equality of condition is incompatible with…

— James F. Cooper

I believe the role that people like myself have played in the transformation of public opinion has been by persistently presenting a…

— Milton Friedman

My focus is on a ring, and giving the best individual performance I can.

— Frank Thomas

I wanted to find out if we went to the NFL and really took care of guys, really cared about each and…

— Pete Carroll

My sons are my proudest 'accomplishments' in life and I get energised seeing their individual personalities develop as they grow up.

— Azran Osman Rani

For every individual who gets killed, someone should build a school or teach a child. We really need to balance things with…

— Pharrell Williams

Opportunities for education should be within the reach of every individual, not for the lucky few.

— Elbert Hubbard

The individual mirrors in his individuation the preordained social laws of exploitation, however mediated.

— Theodor Adorno

Nations like individuals are subjected to punishments and chastisements in this world.

— Abraham Lincoln

Allowance of the freedom of choices in direction, either for the group or individuals particularly in the near future.

— Carl Rogers

In the sciences, the authority of thousands of opinions is not worth as much as one tiny spark of reason in an…

— Galileo Galilei

I freely admit I'm confused. I'm a confused and troubled individual but at the same time...Its Free!

— Craig Ferguson

The true greatness of nations is in those qualities which constitute the greatness of the individual.

— Charles Sumner

Mutual funds have historically offered safety and diversification. And they spare you the responsibility of picking individual stocks.

— Ron Chernow

I don't think anybody's just B2B or B2C anymore. You are B2I - business to individual.

— Ginni Rometty

The whole life of the individual is nothing but the process of giving birth to himself; indeed, we should be fully born…

— Erich Fromm

In the end, it is upon the quality and commitment of individuals that all group movements depend.

— Robertson Davies

The individual soul should seek for an intimate union with the soul of the universe.

— Novalis