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6324 Individual quotes by 3344 unique authors

Democracy is not an easy form of government, because it is never final; it is a living, changing organism, with a continuous shifting and adjusting… — Ilka Chase
The distinction between children and adults, while probably useful for some purposes, is at bottom a specious one, I feel. There are only individual egos,… — Niccolo Machiavelli
The most important phase of living with a person: the respect for that person as an individual. — Millicent Carey McIntosh
We judge individual man and women as we do nations and races -- by the character of their achievement and by their achievement of character. — Edward Abbey
Another cause for the increase in alienation and cynicism is a feeling that too many policy decisions that affect individuals have been taken out of… — Robert Teeter
Liberty not only means that the individual has both the opportunity and the burden of choice; it also means that he must bear the consequences… — Friedrich August von Hayek
If [God] has made it a law in the nature of man to pursue his own happiness, He has left him free in the choice… — Thomas Jefferson
What is true of every member of the society, individually, is true of them all collectively; since the rights of the whole can be no… — Thomas Jefferson
The equal rights of man and the happiness of every individual are now acknowledged to be the only legitimate objects of government. — Thomas Jefferson
It is rare that the public sentiment decides immorally or unwisely, and the individual who differs from it ought to distrust and examine well his… — Thomas Jefferson
To all general purposes we have uniformly been one people each individual citizen everywhere enjoying the same national rights, privileges, and protection. — Alexander Hamilton
Your love of liberty -- your respect for the laws -- your habits of industry -- and your practice of the moral and religious obligations,… — George Washington
Could the straggling thoughts of individuals be collected, they would frequently form materials for wise and able men to improve into useful matter. — Thomas Paine
These are the influences that everybody has. Some individuals might stand out because of one thing or another, but whether one's perception as a child… — John Hume
It is indeed immensely picturesque. I can fancy sitting all a summer's day watching its shadows shorten and lengthen again, and drawing a delicious contrast… — Henry James
It's a curious thing, this thing we call civilization...we think it is an affair of epochs, and nations. It's really an affair of individuals. One… — William Dean Howells
It is the peculiar province of the legislature to prescribe general rules for the government of society; the application of those rules to individuals in… — John Marshall
Place three individuals in a situation wherein the interest of each depends on the voice of the others, and give to two of them an… — James Madison
It's not an Israeli model, it's a TSA, screwed-up model. It should actually be the person who's looking at the ticket and talking to the… — John Mica
The mere absorption of facts and truths is so exclusively an individual affair that it tends very naturally to pass into selfishness. There is no… — John Dewey
But the individual butterfly or earthquake remains just the unique existence which it is. We forget in explaining its occurrence that it is only the… — John Dewey
Why should the railroad employees be parceled out among a score of different organizations? They are all employed in the same service. Their interests are… — Eugene V. Debs
On the level of the Son there is no answer to the question of good and evil; there is only an incurable separation of the… — Carl Jung
The less we understand of what our fathers and forefathers sought, the less we understand ourselves, and thus we help with all our might to… — Carl Jung
If God wishes to be born as man and to unite mankind in the fellowship of the Holy Ghost, He suffers the terrible torment of… — Carl Jung

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