Individual Quotes - Page 17

The thing that distinguishes social systems from physical or even biological systems is their incomparable (and embarrassing) richness in special cases. Generalizations in the social sciences are mere pathways which lead through a riotous forest of individual trees, each a species unto itself. The social scientist who loses this sense of the essential individuality and uniqueness of each case is all too likely to make a solemn scientific ass of himself, especially if he thinks that his faceless generalizations are the equivalents of the rich vareity of the world.

Life is neither static nor unchanging. With no individuality, there can be no change, no adaptation and, in an inherently changing world, any species unable to adapt is also doomed.

There is nothing so useful to man in general, nor so beneficial to particular societies and individuals, as trade. This is that alma mater, at whose plentiful breast all mankind are nourished.

Morality is the herd-instinct in the individual.

I'm just an individual who doesn't feel that I need to have somebody qualify my work in any particular way. I'm working for me.

When everybody in a group is susceptible to similar biases, groups are inferior to individuals, because groups tend to be more extreme than individuals.

Nonviolence is a method that transforms, first of all, the individual once you understand it and embrace it. It begins with you and, if you can, about transforming individuals so that they love unconditionally.

In Italy, the Milanese are well organized but follow bourgeois taste. They adhere to certain codes of elegance, but not to individualism.

Identity is an assemblage of constellations.

Every individual is at once the beneficiary and the victim of the linguistic tradition into which he has been born.

The day of individual happiness has passed.

Socialize the individual's surplus and you socialize his spirit and creativeness.

You can only elevate individual performance by elevating that of the entire system.

When individuals change, society will change. And when society changes, the whole world will change. The welfare of the individual is bound up with the welfare of society as a whole.

God's eternal plan has always been to display his glory not just through individuals but through a corporate body.

Two things are necessary, the development of individuality and the participation of the individual in a truly social life.

Everyone must feel that he is the supreme arbiter of his own [destiny], that no power on earth shall rise over him, that he is and always shall be sovereign of himself and all relating to his individuality. Then only shall all men realize security of person and property.

The individual is not accountable to society for his actions in so far as these concern the interests of no person but himself.

The nation is only as strong as the collective strength of its individuals.

If it is difficult to know yourself as an individual, it seems to be more complex as a couple. So if you say, "Oh I like a person who is like this and that," you might take away the possibility of seeing the only one that might be right for you.

Life would be vanilla ice cream without 31 flavors of individuality.

What is possible for individual man is impossible for the masses.

When a system of oppression has become institutionaliz ed it is unnecessary for individuals to be oppressive

It is this potential for plasticity of the relatively stereotyped units of the nervous system that endows each of us with our individuality.

Revolution is something that actually starts in individual hearts.