Individual Quotes - Page 16

Had I to carve an inscription on my tombstone I would ask for none other than "The Individual."

I think it's very desirable to be an individual and a free thinker.

The availability of private insurance provides tremendous insulation for millions of individuals

Every individual or national degeneration is immediately revealed by a directly proportional degradation in language.

Once you accept the fact that people have 'individual choices' and they're 'free' to make those choices. Free to make choices means without being influenced and I can't understand that at all. All of us are influenced in all our choices by the culture we live in, by our parents, and by the values that dominate. So, we're influenced. So there can't be free choices.

In my life there have been several individuals whose presence made it easier for me to think, pleasanter to make my responses.

To care of another individual means to know and to experience the other as fully as possible.

Society is a republic. When an individual endeavors to lift himself above his fellows, he is dragged down by the mass, either by means of ridicule or of calumny. No one shall be more virtuous or more intellectually gifted than others. Whoever, by the irresistable force of genius, rises above the common herd is certain to be ostracized by society, which will pursue him with such merciless derision and detraction that at last he will be compelled to retreat into the solitude of his thoughts.

Education has in America's whole history been the major hope for improving the individual and society.

Graphic design is the paradise of individuality, eccentricity, heresy, abnormality, hobbies and humors.

No two people have the same reality

Mankind must work continually to produce individual great human beings - this and nothing else is the task... for the question is this : How can your life, the individual life, retain the highest value, the deepest significance? Only by living for the good of the rarest and most valuable specimens.

An individual, in promoting his own interest, may injure the public interest; a nation, in promoting the general welfare, may check the interest of a part of its members.

Unless an investor has access to “incredibly high-qualified professionals,” they “should be 100 percent passive - that includes almost all individual investors and most institutional investors.

Sexiness is about being an individual and having conviction about what that is.

Our very essence is Absolute Consciousness; without an I, without the consciousness of every individual, nothing really exists.

Nothing satisfies an individual incapable of enjoyment.

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.

A man lives not only his personal life, as an individual, but also, consciously or unconsciously, the life of his epoch and his contemporaries.

The elimination of the fear of death transforms the individual's way of being in the world.

My honest opinion is that blacks have to fight much harder for their individuality than whites do.

Now the identification of individual sounds by phonetic observation is an artificial way of proceeding.

We must cultivate and defend particularity, individuality, and irregularity-life. Human beings do not have a future in the collectivism of bureaucratic states or in the mass society created by capitalism. Every system, by virtue as much of its abstract nature as of its pretension to totality, is the enemy of life. As a forgotten Spanish poet, José Moreno Villa, put it with melancholy wit: "I have discovered in symmetry the root of much iniquity."

Individuals who deliberately decide not to take offense lead happier, more productive lives.

There is really nothing that can be done except by an individual. Only individuals can learn. Only individuals can think creatively. Only individuals can cooperate. Only individuals can combat statism.