Individuals Quotes
1990 Individuals quotes by 1368 unique authors
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Despite the international scientific community's consensus on climate change, a small number of critics continue to deny that climate change exists or that humans are…
— David Suzuki
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Every civilization depends upon the quality of the individuals it produces.
— Frank Herbert
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Civilization is a process in the service of Eros, whose purpose is to combine single human individuals, and after that families, then races, peoples and…
— Sigmund Freud
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Too many people hold the idea that psychopaths are essentially killers or convicts. The general public hasn't been educated to see beyond the social stereotypes…
— Robert D. Hare
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Every society has a right to fix the fundamental principles of its association, and to say to all individuals, that if they contemplate pursuits beyond…
— Thomas Jefferson
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The aim (of education) must be the training of independently acting and thinking individuals who, however, see in the service to the community their highest…
— Albert Einstein
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So, what we do as individuals matters. It adds up.
— Maurice Strong
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The worth of the state, in the long run, is the worth of the individuals composing it.
— John Stuart Mill
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Auto repair, piloting, skiing, perhaps even management: these are skills that yield to application, hard work, and native talent. But forecasting an uncertain future and…
— James Surowiecki
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Sooner or later a democracy which is to survive has to be able to rely upon that enlargement of vision and purpose of those individuals…
— Ordway Tead
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We are paying for and even submitting to the dictates of an ever increasing, unceasingly spawning class of human beings who never should have been…
— Margaret Sanger
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I am constantly being asked about individuals. The only way to win is as a team. Football is not about one or two or three…
— Phyllis Diller
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I don't blame individuals, I blame myself.
— Joe Royle
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That man's best works should be such bungling imitations of Nature's infinite perfection, matters not much; but that he should make himself an imitation, this…
— Lydia M. Child
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If we believe that murder is wrong and not admissible in our society, then it has to be wrong for everyone, not just individuals but…
— Helen Prejean
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It would be one thing if we could say the system works [in Illinois], and that individuals followed procedures and were found innocent, but in…
— Jan Schakowsky
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I have examined the death penalty under each of its two aspects: as a direct action, and as an indirect one. What does it come…
— Victor Hugo
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What the public does is not to express its opinions but to align itself for or against a proposal. If that theory is accepted, we…
— Walter Lippmann
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For too long, too many people dependent on Social Security have been cruelly frightened by individuals seeking political gain through demagoguery and outright falsehood, and…
— Ronald Reagan
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It is a logical absurdity to equate democracy with freedom in the way that mainstream political philosophers and commentators typically do. A system where individuals…
— Keith Preston
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Some individuals are better able than others to draw the right conclusions about the world about them and act accordingly. These individuals will be more…
— Stephen Hawking
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Economic activity is carried out by individuals in organisations that require a high degree of social co-operation
— Francis Fukuyama
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There is economics in biology, nothing is free, everything has to be paid for, there are costs as well as benefits to everything in life,…
— Richard Dawkins
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Government is instituted to protect property of every sort; as well that which lies in the various rights of individuals, as that which the term…
— James Madison
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Our civilization is locked in the grip of an ideology - corporatism. An ideology that denies and undermines the legitimacy of individuals as the citizen…
— John Ralston Saul
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