Top 6 Individual Power Quotes

The freedom and human capacities of individuals must be developed to their maximum but individual powers must be linked to democracy in the sense that social betterment must be the necessary consequence of individual

The freedom and human capacities of individuals must be developed to their maximum but individual powers must be linked to democracy in the sense that social betterment must be the necessary consequence of individual flourishing.

Henry Giroux

Democracy, Individual Power, Social

Civility is the natural state for people who know how limited their own individual powers are and know, too, that they need the conversation.

David Brooks

People, Needs, Individual Power

"David Brooks’ Extraordinary Blindspot" by Jonathan Weiler, www.huffingtonpost.com. January 14, 2011.

Civil rights are those which appertain to man in right of his being a member of society. Every civil right has for its foundation some natural right pre-existing in the individual, but to the enjoyment of which his individual power is not, in all cases, sufficiently competent. Of this kind are all those which relate to security and protection.

Thomas Paine

Men, Rights, Individual Power

Thomas Paine (2016). “The Rights of Man”, p.41, Xist Publishing

Individual liberty is individual power.

John Quincy Adams

Liberty, Individual Power, Presidency

John Quincy Adams (1965). “John Quincy Adams and American continental empire: letters, papers and speeches”, Chicago, Quadrangle Books

Principle III: Presumptive rights are the conditions under which individual powers normally develop.

William Ernest Hocking

Rights, Individual Power, Principles

"Present Status of the Philosophy of Law and of Rights". Book by William Ernest Hocking, Ch. VII, Natural Right, p. 68, 1926.

Pure community is a matter of no interest to any will; but a community which pursues a common good is of supreme interest to all wills; and what we have here said is that whatever the nature of that common good ... it must contain the development of individual powers, as a prior condition for all other goods.

William Ernest Hocking

Community, Matter, Individual Power

"Present Status of the Philosophy of Law and of Rights". Book by William Ernest Hocking. Ch. VII, Natural Right, § 35, p. 77, 1926.