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6324 Individual quotes by 3344 unique authors

The true direction of the development of thinking is not from the individual to the social, but from the social to the individual. — Lev S. Vygotsky
The individual makes a clear effort to define moral values and principles that have validity and application apart from the authority of the groups of… — Lawrence Kohlberg
At this level, the individual perceives the maintenance of the expectations of his family, group, or nation as valuable in its own right, regardless of… — Lawrence Kohlberg
Right action tends to be defined in terms of general individual rights and standards that have been critically examined and agreed upon by the whole… — Lawrence Kohlberg
The propensity to make strong emotional bonds to particular individuals [is] a basic component of human nature — John Bowlby
In a society in which individualism is becoming rampant, people more and more believe that they are the center of the world. Such a belief… — Martin Seligman
The minute you had kids you closed ranks. You didn't plan this in advance, but it happened. Families were like individual, discrete, moated island nations.… — Meg Wolitzer
A citizen of the Roman Empire, for example, would have placed less value on individual liberty in the modern Western sense than on collective responsibility. — Stephen Baxter
The public needs art, and it is the responsibility of a ’self-proclaimed artist’ to realize the public needs art, and not to make bourgeois art… — Keith Haring
Who has forbidden women to engage in private and individual studies? Have they not a rational soul as men do?...I have this inclination to study… — Juana InÃ©s de la Cruz
Another hallmark of Christianity is that salvation is not individualistic-it's not something one person receives for himself or herself. Salvation is the reign of God.… — Stanley Hauerwas
Hillary does nothing without careful calculation. She knows that politicians - provided they have real power - who bash entire industries tend to raise huge… — Donald Luskin
Politics is the business of getting power and privilege without possessing merit. A politician is anyone who asks individuals to surrender part of their liberty… — P.J. O'Rourke
Competition, founded upon the conflicting interests of individuals, is in reality far less productive of wealth and enterprise than co-operation, involving though it does the… — Robert Hugh Benson
While the individual man is an insoluble puzzle, in the aggregate he becomes a mathematical certainty. You can, for example, never foretell what any one… — Arthur Conan Doyle
Safety and happiness can only come from individuals, classes, and nations being honest and fair and kind to each other. — C.S. Lewis
Thus, and not otherwise, the world was made. Either something or nothing must depend on individual choices. — C.S. Lewis
Today, certain people file for bankruptcy, businesses and individuals, and it no longer has the stigma it once had. Now it's almost considered wise, a… — David Dinkins
People knew less of each other, and so were more individual. The entire world was not for them only a push or switch away. Strangers… — John Fowles
Speech has both an individual and a social side, and we cannot conceive of one without the other. — Ferdinand de Saussure
Truth is not born nor is it to be found inside the head of an individual person, it is born between people collectively searching for… — Mikhail Bakhtin
My chief virtue (or if you like, defect) has been a tireless lifelong search for an original, individual musical idiom. I detest imitation, I detest… — Sergei Prokofiev
I suspect that most of the individuals who have religious faith are content with blind faith. They feel no obligation to understand what they believe.… — Mortimer Adler
... both individuals and companies are using the Netherlands as a haven for productive activity. ... This is good news for all taxpayers. The rich… — Daniel J. Mitchell
Politicians don't like empowered individuals. — Neal Boortz

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