Individual Quotes

6324 Individual quotes by 3344 unique authors

I never look at the masses as my responsibility. I look at the individual. I can love only one person at a time. I can… — Mother Teresa
One of the greatest feelings in the world is knowing that we as individuals can make a difference. Ending hunger in America is a goal… — Jeff Bridges
Change happens at the level of the individual — Scilla Elworthy
Marijuana is the finest anti-nausea medication known to science, and our leaders have lied about this consistently. [Arresting people for] medical marijuana is the most… — Peter McWilliams
The world will never be long without some good reason to hate the unhappy; their real faults are immediately detected; and if those are not… — Samuel Johnson
We're looking at the singular condition of poverty. All the other individual problems spring from that condition... doesn't matter if it's death, aid, trade, AIDS,… — Bob Geldof
Small loans can transform lives, especially the lives of women and children. The poor can become empowered instead of disenfranchised. Homes can be built, jobs… — Natalie Portman
As our economy faces up to potential labour shortages due to our ageing population and as it moves to a new level of sophistication to… — Julia Gillard
Hard as it may appear in individual cases, dependent poverty ought to be held disgraceful. — Thomas Malthus
It seems to me that I cannot afford, as a self-respecting individual, to refuse to do a thing merely because it will make me disliked… — Eleanor Roosevelt
Censorship is never over for those who have experienced it. It is a brand on the imagination that affects the individual who has suffered it,… — Noam Chomsky
Democracy doesn't mean much if people have to confront concentrated systems of economic power as isolated individuals. Democracy means something if people can organize to… — Noam Chomsky
When the first Superman movie came out I was frequently asked "What is a hero?" ...My answer was that a hero is someone who commits… — Christopher Reeve
Individuals of all ages can make an important difference in the overall health of our ocean by the actions they take every day. Simple things… — Ted Danson
Through fear of resembling one another, through horror of having to submit, through uncertainty as well, through skepticism and complexity, there is a multitude of… — Andre Gide
The best indicator of a sociopath serial bully is not a clinical diagnosis but the trail of devastation and destruction of lives and livelihoods surrounding… — Tim Field
Thus strength is afforded by good and thorough customs, thus is learnt the subjection of the individual, and strenuousness of character becomes a birth gift… — Friedrich Nietzsche
Only individuals with an aberrant temperament can in the long run retain their self-esteem in the face of the disesteem of their fellows. — Thorstein Veblen
Crime seems to change character when it crosses a bridge or a tunnel. In the city, crime is taken as emblematic of class and race.… — Barbara Ehrenreich
Men are created different; they lose their social freedom and their individual autonomy in seeking to become like each other. — David Riesman

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