Individual Quotes - Page 22

But, is it possible for princes and ministers to be enlightened, when private individuals are not so?

Individuals can resist injustice, but only a community can do justice.

Observe the masses and do the opposite

True technique will know how to maintain the illusion of liberty, choice, and individuality; but these will have been carefully calculated so that they will be integrated into the mathematical reality merely as appearances!

I just believe in working. I'm not one of those romantic explainers of my own individual point of view.

At our present bad moment, we need above all to recover our sense of literary individuality and of poetic autonomy.

[Adolf Hitler] was very close-mouthed, he was the most private individual I have ever seen, very secretive.

The business world worships mediocrity. Officially we revere free enterprise, initiative and individuality. Unofficially we fear it.

In the latter case life rests upon a thousand presuppositions which the individual can never trace back to their origins, and verify; but which he must accept upon faith and belief.

True individuality is the repose arising from the relation of a self to all it has to do with. Bad individuality has in it a separation between outward action and a flat repose inwardly.

The religions of the world are luminous in their individuality, and they have valuable social and soulmaking functions. Surely someday we will quit killing each other over their different strategies.

Perfume is a note of woman's individuality. It is the last touch to her look.

Each man must have his I; it is more necessary to him than bread.

Christians are called to redeem entire cultures, not just individuals.

If you don't believe what I'm telling you, then ask yourself this: would any decent, kind-hearted individual become a writer? Of course not.

It is not the most lovable individuals who stand more in need of love, but the most unlovable

Besides the fear of ending up with the totally wrong person, the first time between two persons is underscored by two things: desire and awkwardness. The awkwardness of the first time when two individuals touch each other is never lost on the young...or the old.

There is, however, one other human right which is infrequently mentioned but which seems to be destined to become very important: this is the right, or the duty, of the individual to abstain from cooperating in activities which he considers wrong or pernicious.

I am interested not in individual readings, but in constructing networks of images and meanings capable of reflecting the complexity of the subject.

It is my ambition to be, as a private individual, abolished and voided from history, leaving it markless.

All of us have our individual curses, something that we are uncomfortable with and something that we have to deal with, like me making horror films, perhaps.

Marriage is not for individual happiness, but for the welfare of the nation and the caste.

We can arrive at a point of view where the preservation of the individual activities is no longer inconsistent with our comprehension of the cosmic consciousness or our attainment to the transcendent and supracosmic.

Every breath drawn by an individual who truly serves God will elicit a responsive chord from the universe around him.

Love is authentic only when it gives freedom. Love is true only when it respects the other person's individuality, his privacy.