Individual Quotes · Page 76

It is the individual artist who must act courageously in an effort to grow.

— Mary Carroll Nelson

Government should work to insure the rights of the individual, not plot to take them away.

— Lyn Nofziger

The individual man is transitory, but the pulse of life and of growth goes on after he is gone, buried under a…

— Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings

The absolute rule of the state shall be a function of the absolute liberty of each individual will.

— Aleister Crowley

There can be no real individual freedom in the presence of economic insecurity.

— Chester Bowles

The liberty of the individual must be thus far limited; he must not make himself a nuisance to other people.

— John Stuart Mill

My love is to tell a story but I like stories that evolve from character, from the nature of the individuals involved.

— David McCullough

I worship individuals for their highest possibilities as individuals and I loathe humanity for its failure to live up to these possibilities.

— Ayn Rand

We need to insist on fathers and mothers sharing the care of their offspring as well as the opportunity to enjoy the…

— Mary Frances Berry

Democracy is not brute numbers; it is a genuine union of true individuals...the essence of democracy is creating. The technique of democracy…

— Mary Parker Follett

The uniqueness of the unit was more or less that it was focused on a single individual. It was really the first…

— Michael Scheuer

It can destroy an individual, or it can fulfill him, depending a good deal on luck. No one should come to New…

— E. B. White

The life-fate of the modern individual depends not only upon the family into which he was born or which he enters by…

— C. Wright Mills

Individual liberty is individual power, and as the power of a community is a mass compounded of individual powers, the nation which…

— John Quincy Adams

Could the straggling thoughts of individuals be collected, they would frequently form materials for wise and able men to improve into useful…

— Thomas Paine

Peace in the world depends on peace in the hearts of individuals; this depends on each of us practising ethics by disciplining…

— Dalai Lama

I believe that everybody was born with a kind of uniqueness. There is never going to be somebody else with the same…

— Robert Greene

I don't think we've ever lived in such a dangerous time, on a range of different levels. We also live in an…

— Queen Noor of Jordan

America traditionally represents the greatest possibility of someone's going from nothing to something. Why? In theory, if not practice, the government stays…

— Larry Elder

It was one of those sumptuous days when the world is full of autumn muskiness and tangy, crisp perfection: vivid blue sky,…

— Bill Bryson

The right of individual property is no doubt the very corner-stone of civilization, as hitherto understood; but I am a little impatient…

— James Russell Lowell

To the American people of 1789, their nation promised a new way of life: each individual a free man; each having the…

— Charles A. Reich

If there is no absolute moral standard, then one cannot say in a final sense that anything is right or wrong. By…

— Francis Schaeffer

Sculpture is, in the twentieth century, a wide field of experience, with many facets of symbol and material and individual calligraphy. But…

— Barbara Hepworth

Each individual is unique. We all have equal worth. Young and old, those who can cope and those who need help.

— Kjell Magne Bondevik

Life always rides in strength to victory, not through internationalism... but only through the direct responsibility of the individual.

— Frank Lloyd Wright

Harmelody allows everybody to be an individual who does not have to imitate anybody else.

— Ornette Coleman

The choice, however, is as clear now for nations as it was once for the individual: peace or extinction.

— Lester B. Pearson

Now the identification of individual sounds by phonetic observation is an artificial way of proceeding.

— Roman Jakobson

I've always had individual friends, but I didn't find the people I wanted to learn from as an adult until my midtwenties.

— Sheila Heti

We have two and half million individual campaign contributions, more than any campaign in history.

— Bernie Sanders

Individual efforts can bring excellence but only collective efforts can deliver effectively.

— Narendra Modi

... an artist is a person first. He is an individual. If there is no person, there is no artist.

— Chaim Potok

The concept of individual with a conscience is one whose highest allegiance is to his fellow man.

— Ralph Nader

If the head is lost, all that perishes is the individual; if the balls are lost, all of human nature perishes.

— Francois Rabelais

I stand for all those who feel that the government no longer understands the individual and no longer respects individual rights.

— Harvey Milk

One of the eternal truths is that happiness is created and developed in peace, and one of the eternal rights is the…

— Bertha von Suttner

I define anarchist society as one where there is no legal possibility for coercive aggression against the person or property of any…

— Murray Rothbard

Donald Trump has shown that he will essentially attack individuals, make Second Amendment jokes.

— Reid Hoffman

It is fair to say there are individuals in the United States who ascribe to al-Qaeda-type beliefs.

— Janet Napolitano