Individual Quotes - Page 15

They are a very extensive minority who have suffered discrimination and who have the same right to participation in the promise and fruits of society as every other individual.

Poetry is not a turning loose of emotion, but an escape from emotion.

I quickly learned that you don't have to be incarcerated by suffering, and that, in spite of the dysfunctional nature of your family, you are an individual in full possession of your life.

This is not the wisdom of the crowd, but the wisdom of someone in the crowd. It’s not that the network itself is smart; it’s that the individuals get smarter because they’re connected to the network.

If I'd wanted to be an individual, I'd have taken up tennis.

The individual act of obedience is the cornerstone not only of the strength of authoritarian society but also of its weakness.

In every aspect of our lives, we are always asking ourselves, How am I of value? What is my worth? Yet I believe that worthiness is our birthright.

The history of every individual man should be a Bible.

Sensuality is the total mobilization of the senses: an individual observes his partner intently, straining to catch every sound.

We all live in the protection of certain cowardices which we call our principles.

Make ethical choices in what we buy, do, and watch. In a consumer-driven society our individual choices, used collectively for the good of animals and nature, can change the world faster than laws.

Remember to always be yourself. Unless you suck.

Innovation has never come through bureaucracy and hierarchy. It's always come from individuals.

My biggest prediction for the future is that people are going to start looking after individual investors.

In a basic sense, the greater the development of each individual the more able, more effective, and less needy of limiting or restricting others she or he will be.

Religion is the worst thing that ever happened to mankind - the ironic part is that it's presented as a good thing, and its effect is absolutely catastrophic to individuals and to societies.

Individuality is either the mark of genius or the reverse. Mediocrity finds safety in standardization.

As far as I have seen, at school...they aimed at blotting out one's individuality.

A language presupposes that all the individual users possess the organs.

Personal Style comes from within. It's when the woman, her individuality and spirit come through. She uses clothes to express who she is and how she feels

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

Don't let your special character and values, the secret that you know and no one else does, the truth - don't let that get swallowed up by the great chewing complacency.

I detest symbolic protest, as it is an outcry of weak, middle-of-the-road, liberal eunuchs. If an individual feels strongly enough about something to do something about it, then he shouldn't prostitute himself by doing something symbolic. He should get out and do something real.

A man has as many social selves as there are individuals who recognize him.

The male dares to be different to the degree that he accepts his passivity and his desire to be female, his fagginess. The farthest out male is the dragqueen, but he, although different from most men, is exactly like all other dragqueens; like the functionalist, he has an identity - a female; he tries to define all his troubles away - but still no individuality. Not completely convinced that he's a woman, highly insecure about being sufficiently female, he conforms compulsively to the man-made feminine stereotype, ending up as nothing but a bundle of stilted mannerisms.