Individual Human Quotes
46 quotes by 38 authors
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Beneath the surface of states and nations, ideas and language, lies the fate of individual human beings in need. Answering their needs will be the…
— Kofi Annan
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Basically we could not have peace, or an atmosphere in which peace could grow, unless we recognized the rights of individual human beings... their importance,…
— Eleanor Roosevelt
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Persistence is the great measure of individual human character.
— Brian Tracy
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The individual human is still the creature who can wonder, who can be enchanted by a sonata, who can place symbols together to make poetry…
— Rollo May
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The ultimate decision about what is accepted as right and wrong will be made not by individual human wisdom but by the disappearance of the…
— Friedrich August von Hayek
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At the heart of western freedom and democracy is the belief that the individual man ... is the touchstone of value, and all society, groups,…
— Robert Kennedy
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My vision for the future? Two things: to make credit a human right so that each individual human being will have the opportunity to take…
— Muhammad Yunus
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Science is a human activity, and the best way to understand it is to understand the individual human beings who practise it. Science is an…
— Freeman Dyson
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Each individual human being can claim the Spirit of Jesus as the guiding spirit of his or her life. In that Spirit we can speak…
— Henri Nouwen
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The psychoanalysis of individual human beings, however, teaches us with quite special insistence that the god of each of them is formed in the likeness…
— Sigmund Freud
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We pass the word around; we ponder how the case is put by different people, we read the poetry; we meditate over the literature; we…
— Lewis Thomas
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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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To deal with individual human needs at the everyday level can be noble sometimes.
— Jimmy Carter
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Some people point to me as the cause of all society's problems, others as if I am the benefactor, responsible for everything good, but I…
— Hugo Chavez
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Because we are free we can never be indifferent to the fate of freedom elsewhere. Our moral sense dictates a clearcut preference for these societies…
— Jimmy Carter
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The divine impeccability of the immortal [Soviet] State turned out not only to have suppressed individual human beings but also to have defended them, to…
— Vasily Grossman
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The only thing in the world worth a damn is the strange, touching, pathetic, awesome nobility of the individual human spirit.
— John D. MacDonald
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Individual human beings are so subtly developed through the centuries that it is strictly impermissible to compare any two men who are not contemporaries-that is…
— Pierre Teilhard de Chardin
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With their survival as an institution and as individual human beings at stake, the Marines have had to ruthlessly and endlessly examine, discard, define, refine,…
— David A. Freedman
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With such global events looming over us like mountains, nay, like entire mountain ranges, it may seem incongruous and inappropriate to recall that the primary…
— Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
Who Wrote These Individual Human Quotes
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