Individuals Quotes

1990 Individuals quotes by 1368 unique authors

The mind is just like a crowd; thoughts are the individuals. And because thoughts are there continuously you think the process is substantial. Drop each… — Rajneesh
Because all the societies, all the nations, all the cultures, have taken it for granted that the individuals exist for them, not vice-versa. To me,… — Rajneesh
Have you ever asked yourself why one person is honorable and another dishonorable; why one is honest, another dishonest; why one is moral, another immoral?… — Ezra Taft Benson
Just as ripples spread out when a single pebble is dropped into water, the actions of individuals can have far-reaching effects. — Dalai Lama
The Nobel awards should be regarded as giving recognition to this general scientific progress as well as to the individuals involved. — John Bardeen
If old consumers were assumed to be passive, then new consumers are active. If old consumers were predictable and stayed where you told them, then… — Henry Jenkins
The individual is the true reality of life. A cosmos in himself, he does not exist for the State, nor for that abstraction called "society,"… — Emma Goldman
All political theories assume, of course, that most individuals are very ignorant. Those who plead for liberty differ from the rest in that they include… — Friedrich August von Hayek
When individuals and nations have once got in their heads the abstract concept of full-blown liberty, there is nothing like it in its uncontrollable strength. — Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
They make a rout about universal liberty, without considering that all that is to be valued, or indeed can be enjoyed by individuals, is private… — Samuel Johnson
The mother-women seemed to prevail that summer at Grand Isle. It was easy to know them, fluttering about with extended, protecting wings when any harm,… — Kate Chopin
The [U.S.] Constitution is a limitation on the government, not on private individuals ... it does not prescribe the conduct of private individuals, only the… — Ayn Rand
No individual or private group or private organization has the legal power to initiate the use of physical force against other individuals or groups and… — Ayn Rand
Fundamentally, there are only two ways of coordinating the economic activities of millions. One is central direction involving the use of coercion - the technique… — Milton Friedman
[The] erroneous assumption is to the effect that the aim of public education is to fill the young of the species with knowledge and awaken… — H. L. Mencken
Amidst the vicissitudes of the earth's surface, species cannot be immortal, but must perish, one after another, like the individuals which compose them. There is… — Charles Lyell
Science cannot describe individuals, but only types. If human societies cannot be classified, they must remain inaccessible to scientific description. — Emile Durkheim
I cannot believe in the immortality of the soul. No, all this talk of an existence for us, as individuals, beyond the grave is wrong.… — Thomas A. Edison
Relationships are all there is. Everything in the universe only exists because it is in relationship to everything else. Nothing exists in isolation. We have… — Margaret J. Wheatley
Physical science enjoys the distinction of being the most fundamental of the experimental sciences, and its laws are obeyed universally, so far as is known,… — Frederick Soddy
At the heart of my politics has always been the value of community, the belief that we are not merely individuals struggling in isolation from… — Tony Blair
Many business leaders today view their jobs as entailing responsibility for the welfare of the wider community. These individuals do not define themselves as profit-making… — Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi
eBay had two main things that really spoke to me. It enabled individuals to do things that they could not have done without the Web.… — Meg Whitman
More and more individuals worldwide are realizing that war does not solve conflict, nor resolve long-standing cycles of violence. As more of those who have… — Scilla Elworthy
From music and dance to painting and sculpting, the arts allow us to explore new worlds and to view life from another perspective. They also… — George W. Bush

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