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6324 Individual quotes by 3344 unique authors

Essentially, I mean the almost self-evident fact that individuals, ethnic groups, and races differ among themselves in intelligence and in many other traits, and that… — Murray Rothbard
Government is a way by which every individual believes he can live at the expense of everybody else. — Milton Friedman
The proper role of government is exactly what John Stuart Mill said in the middle of the nineteenth century in On Liberty. The proper role… — Milton Friedman
The free man will ask neither what his country can do for him nor what he can do for his country. He will ask rather… — Milton Friedman
To the free man, the country is the collection of individuals who compose it, not something over and above them. ... He recognizes no national… — Milton Friedman
With the socialization of the health care system through institutions such as Medicaid and Medicare and the regulation of the insurance industry (by restricting an… — Hans-Hermann Hoppe
A society that robs an individual of the product of his effort, or enslaves him, or attempts to limit the freedom of his mind, or… — Ayn Rand
The vision of the anointed is one in which ills as poverty, irresponsible sex, and crime derive primarily from 'society,' rather than from individual choices… — Thomas Sowell
The important thing for Government is not to do things which individuals are doing already, and to do them a little better or a little… — John Maynard Keynes
The training is a set of interpersonal interactions that lead to emotional and intellectual experiences that provide a circumstance and an intrument for self awareness,… — Humberto Maturana
Put together all the existing families and you have society. It is as simple as that. Whatever kind of training took place in the individual… — Virginia Satir
The life history of the individual is first and foremost an accommodation to the patterns and standards traditionally handed down in his community — Ruth Benedict
Perhaps the individual is so viable a god because he can actually understand the ceremonial significance of the way he is treated, and quite on… — Erving Goffman
Professionalism merges the individual into patterns of total environment. Amateurism seeks the development of the total awareness of the individual and the critical awareness of… — Marshall McLuhan
The task for sociology is to come to the help of the individual. We have to be in service of freedom. It is something we… — Zygmunt Bauman
Nothing more can be attempted than to establish the beginning and the direction of an infinitely long road. The pretension of any systematic and definitive… — Georg Simmel
Fashion is the playing area for individuals that lack interior autonomy and need more support points, but who nonetheless feel the need to stand out,… — Georg Simmel
Our modern economy privileges pure profit, momentary transactions and rapid fluidity. Part of craft’s anchoring role is that it helps to objectify experience and also… — Richard Sennett
Sooner or later the public will forget you; the memory of you will fade. What's important are the individuals you've influenced along the way. — Julia Child
People, like large groups of people are stupid. Individuals are smart and can deal with things and can make things last and work, but when… — Brandon Boyd
The public has lost the habit of movie-going because the cinema no longer possesses the charm, the hypnotic charisma, the authority it once commanded. The… — Federico Fellini
The main reason to measure objectives is not so much to reward or punish individual communications manager for success or failure as it is to… — James E. Grunig
The elimination of the fear of death transforms the individual's way of being in the world. — Stanislav Grof
The psyche of the individual is commensurate with the totality of creative energy. This requires a most radical revision of Western psychology. — Stanislav Grof
See, see Who God is, see the glory of God, going up to Him out of this incomprehensible and infinite Sacrifice in which all history… — Thomas Merton

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