Individual Quotes
6324 Individual quotes by 3344 unique authors
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The idea that an individual can find God is terribly self-centered. It is like a wave thinking it can find the sea.
— John Templeton
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Every individual decision is nothing but coincidence, every artistic decision is coincidence.
— Unknown Author
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The individual is losing significance; his destiny is no longer what interests us.
— Ludwig Mies van der Rohe
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If we must accept fate we are not less compelled to affirm liberty, the significance of the individual, the grandeur of duty, the power of…
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
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To become conscious of this power is to become a 'live wire.' The universe is the live wire. It carries power sufficient to meet every…
— Charles F. Haanel
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For many businesses, the fear behind their social media reluctance isn't just fear of failure but of blame and accountability - both individual and collective.
— Jay Baer
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The individual who signs the check has the ultimate power.
— Jerry Rubin
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The life-fate of the modern individual depends not only upon the family into which he was born or which he enters by marriage, but increasingly…
— C. Wright Mills
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Solitude and privacy have become more essential to the individual; but modern enterprise and invention have, through invasions upon his privacy, subjected him to mental…
— Samuel D. Warren
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Most of the major ills of the world have been caused by well-meaning people who ignored the principle of individual freedom, except as applied to…
— Henry Grady Weaver
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The evidence at present available points strongly to the conclusion that the spirals are individual galaxies, or island universes, comparable with our own galaxy in…
— Heber Doust Curtis
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The individual who is best prepared for any occupation is the one able to adapt himself to any situation.
— John Mortimer Smith
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It is through chance that, from among the various individuals of which each of us is composed, one emerges rather than another.
— Henry de Montherlant
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There can be no freedom of the individual, no democracy, without the capital system, the profit system, the private enterprise system. These are, in the…
— Unknown Author
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The only security lies in individual, personal honesty, The law cannot make people honest.
— Unknown Author
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For me, each nuance of a color is in some way an individual, a being who is from the same race as the base color,…
— Yves Klein
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The primal principle of democracy is the worth and dignity of the individual.
— Edward Bellamy
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An individual poor person is an isolated island by himself and herself. IT can end that isolation overnight.
— Muhammad Yunus
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Liberty, whether natural, civil, or political, is the lawful power in the individual to exercise his corresponding rights. It is greatly favored in law.
— Unknown Author
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Whether hunting is right or wrong, a spiritual experience, or an outlet for the killer instinct, one thing it is not is a sport. Sport…
— Unknown Author
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Many problems that challenge us today can be traced back to a profound tension between what is good and desirable for society as a whole…
— Martin Nowak
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Racism is cruel and unjust. It cuts deep and lingers long in individual and community memories. And it is not a thing of the past....We…
— William Devane
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We must show that liberty is not merely one particular value but that it is the source and condition of most moral values. What a…
— Friedrich August von Hayek
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[Statists] believe that government should make decisions for individuals. Since individuals usually prefer to make their own decisions, coercion and compulsion become necessary correctives.
— Theodore J. Forstmann
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Socialists make the mistake of confusing individual worth with success. They believe you cannot allow people to succeed in case those who fail feel worthless.
— Kenneth Baker, Baron Baker of Dorking
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