Individual Quotes

6324 Individual quotes by 3344 unique authors

Most individuals have always thought themselves not big enough or significant enough to have an effect on the whole planet, a notion which conversely made… — Lynette Fromme
Man must begin to the unitary principle of man - knowing that there are not separate men or separate individuals, but hat the whole man… — Walter Russell
A schoolteacher or professor cannot educate individuals, he educates only species. — Georg C. Lichtenberg
The Greeks... labored under the delusion that their democracy was a guarantee of peace and plenty, not realizing that unrestrained majority rule always destroys freedom,… — Henry Grady Weaver
The Council on Foreign Relations is "the establishment." Not only does it have influence and power in key decision-making positions at the highest levels of… — Unknown Author
Ninety-nine [students] out of a hundred are automata, careful to walk in prescribed paths, careful to follow the prescribed custom. This is not an accident… — William Torrey Harris
We need a program of psychosurgery for political control of our society. The purpose is physical control of the mind. Everyone who deviates from the… — Jose Manuel Rodriguez Delgado
Fortunately or otherwise we live at a time when the average individual has to know several times as much in order to keep informed as… — Norman Cousins
... Societies aren t made of sticks and stones, but of men whose individual characters, by turning the scale one way or another, determine the… — Plato
There is not, nor should there be, an irreconcilable contrast between the individual and the collective, between the interests of an individual person and the… — Joseph Stalin
The Unconscious Civilisation There is a certain terrifying dignity to the big ideologies. With the stroke of an intellectual argument the planet is put in… — John Ralston Saul
What the expression is intended to mean, I think, is that there is a better and a worse element in the character of each individual,… — Plato
Because, unlike courage and wisdom, which made our state brave and wise by being present in a particular part of it, discipline operates by being… — Plato
Justice in the individual is now defined analogously to justice in the state. The individual is wise and brave in virtue of his reason and… — Plato
The principles are important. First, the interest of the state or society counts for everything, that of the individual for nothing. Second, the only difference… — Plato
Regarding Ronald Reagan: In point of fact, the image of Ronald Reagan, the man responsible for shaping that decade (the 1980s), should be carved into… — Rush Limbaugh
It is one of the great ironies of human history that some mortals with incorrect understanding of God and life's purposes sometimes scold God because… — Neal A. Maxwell
The history of science is science itself; the history of the individual, the individual. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
The main duty of the historian of mathematics, as well as his fondest privilege, is to explain the humanity of mathematics, to illustrate its greatness,… — George Sarton
You're never more of an individual than when you're a happy team player. — Suzanne Farrell
The vocabulary and manner of classical ballet express a high order of discipline and restraint, a sense of harmony with forces larger and more lasting… — Marcia Siegel
Modern dancers give a sinister portent about our times. The dancers don't even look at one another. They are just a lot of isolated individuals… — Agnes de Mille
The more survival skills an individual has that have been practiced physically and otherwise, the better odds they have for those skills coming to the… — Cody Lundin
My goal in sailing isn't to be brilliant or flashy in individual races, just to be consistent over the long run. — Dennis Conner
The private interest of the individual would not be sufficiently provided for by reasonable and cool self-love alone; therefore the appetites and passions are placed… — Joseph Butler

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