Individuals Quotes

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Who then would not like to see these benefits flow upon the world from the law, as from an inexhaustible source?... But is it possible?...… — Frederic Bastiat
A tax is always a sacrifice which the government demands of individuals.While it only lessens every one's personal eÇŒoyments, it only shifts expenses from one… — Antoine Destutt de Tracy
If the equality of individuals and the dignity of man be myths, they are myths to which the republic is committed. — Howard Mumford Jones
We must understand the role of human rights as empowering of individuals and communities. By protecting these rights, we can help prevent the many conflicts… — Mary Robinson
The protection of human rights to promote the dignity of the individual is too important a matter for symbolic gestures alone. It is only through… — Alexander Downer
The same individuals who are doing primary research in the role of humans on the climate system are then permitted to lead the [IPCC] assessment!… — Unknown Author
No matter what part of the world we come from, we are all basically the same human beings. We all seek happiness and try to… — Dalai Lama
I would say the biggest handicap we have right now is some nutcases in our country that don't believe in global warming. I think they… — Jimmy Carter
Climate science has been targeted by a major political movement, environmentalism, as the focus of their efforts, wherein the natural disasters of the earth system,… — Richard Lindzen
That is one of the reasons I oppose this whole Affirmative Action business. We are not supposed to be judged based on what our ancestors… — Alan Keyes
The purpose of affirmative action is to give our nation a way to finally address the systemic exclusion of individuals of talent on the basis… — William J. Clinton
We're not going to deputize a whole bunch of American citizens to start grabbing people or turning them in, in part because the ordinary American… — Barack Obama
While revolutionaries as individuals can be murdered, you cannot kill ideas. — Thomas Sankara
To the free man, the country is the collection of individuals who compose it, not something over and above them. He is proud of a… — Milton Friedman
Wise elders will likely be those individuals who stay both mentally and physically vital throughout life. — Louis Cozolino
An individual or a group of individuals might of course decide at any time that they would like to invest capital with the objective of… — Immanuel Wallerstein
Relations between States, as between individuals, must be regulated not by armed force, but in accordance with...truth, justice and vigorous and sincere co-operation. — Pope John XXIII
Nothing is more powerful than individuals acting out of their own conscience. — Vaclav Havel
Today it takes no great stretch of the imagination to envisage the earth as an interconnected globe humming with electronic transmissions - a chattering planet… — John Foley
The deepest poverty is the inability of joy, the tediousness of a life considered absurd and contradictory. This poverty is widespread today, in very different… — Pope Benedict XVI
With a basic understanding of all humans as brothers and sisters, we can appreciate the usefulness of different systems and ideologies that can accommodate different… — Dalai Lama
When a government controls both the economic power of individuals and the coercive power of the state ... this violates a fundamental rule of happy… — P.J. O'Rourke
One should not withdraw from individuals and commit to the community what they can accomplish by their own enterprise and industry — Pope Pius XI
As the world becomes more environmentally aware, I believe that we must as individuals recognize the magnificence of our natural world, and feel a sense… — Bob Irwin
What if it is for life's sake that we must die? In truth we are not individuals; and it is because we think ourselves such… — Will Durant

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