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6324 Individual quotes by 3344 unique authors

Our government, taxes, and ideas of freedom are already duplicates of the Old World. Our politicians determine how we should live our lives - and… — Harry Browne
Foolish liberals who are trying to read the Second Amendment out of the constitution by claiming it's not an individual right or that it's too… — Alan Dershowitz
At the heart of western freedom and democracy is the belief that the individual man ... is the touchstone of value, and all society, groups,… — Robert Kennedy
I don't believe in quotas. America was founded on a philosophy of individual rights, not group rights. — Clarence Thomas
The rights of the individual should be the primary object of all governments. — Mercy Otis Warren
As any change must begin somewhere, it is the single individual who will experience it and carry it through. The change must indeed begin with… — Carl Jung
While the law [of competition] may be sometimes hard for the individual, it is best for the race, because it insures the survival of the… — Andrew Carnegie
In the course of individual development, inherited characters appear, in general, earlier than adaptive ones, and the earlier a certain character appears in ontogeny, the… — Ernst Haeckel
The dignity of the human person is a transcendent value, always recognized as such by those who sincerely search for the truth. Indeed, the whole… — Pope John Paul II
Groups do not have experiences except insofar as all their members do. And there are no experiences... that all the members of a scientific community… — Thomas Kuhn
If there be an order in which the human race has mastered its various kinds of knowledge, there will arise in every child an aptitude… — Herbert Spencer
Our immediate interests are after all of but small moment. It is what we do for the future, what we add to the sum of… — Willis R. Whitney
The essence of knowledge is generalization. That fire can be produced by rubbing wood in a certain way is a knowledge derived by generalization from… — Hans Reichenbach
[The] erroneous assumption is to the effect that the aim of public education is to fill the young of the species with knowledge and awaken… — H. L. Mencken
Amidst the vicissitudes of the earth's surface, species cannot be immortal, but must perish, one after another, like the individuals which compose them. There is… — Charles Lyell
Intellect is void of affection and sees an object as it stands in the light of science, cool and disengaged. The intellect goes out of… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
Science cannot describe individuals, but only types. If human societies cannot be classified, they must remain inaccessible to scientific description. — Emile Durkheim
The classification of facts and the formation of absolute judgments upon the basis of this classification-judgments independent of the idiosyncrasies of the individual mind-essentially sum… — Karl Pearson
If patterns of ones and zeros were 'like' patterns of human lives and death, if everything about an individual could be represented in a computer… — Thomas Pynchon
In [David] Douglas's success in life ... his great activity, undaunted courage, singular abstemiousness, and energetic zeal, at once pointed him out as an individual… — Joseph Dalton Hooker
As is well known the principle of virtual velocities transforms all statics into a mathematical assignment, and by D'Alembert's principle for dynamics, the latter is… — Carl Friedrich Gauss
My vision for the future? Two things: to make credit a human right so that each individual human being will have the opportunity to take… — Muhammad Yunus
Each individual person is very important. Each person has tremendous potential. She or he alone can influence the lives of others within the communities, nations,… — Muhammad Yunus
Solitude in the presence of natural beauty and grandeur is the cradle of thought and aspirations which are not only good for the individual, but… — John Stuart Mill
Research has deserted the individual and entered the group. The individual worker find the problem too large, not too difficult. He must learn to work… — Theobald Smith

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