Individual Quotes - Page 25

To assign to everybody his proper place in society is the task of the consumers. Their buying and abstention from buying is instrumental in determining each individual's social position.

The thing is not to follow a pattern. Follow your own pattern of feeling and thought. The thing is to accept your own life and not try to live someone else's life. Look, the thumbprint is not like any other, and the thumbprint is what you must go by.

One individual cannot possible make a difference, alone. It is individual efforts, collectively, that makes a noticeable difference - all the difference in the world!

Regardless of what we say, it's what we do that reveals what we as a church or individual actually believe about God and His will for us.

Every individual can improve from day to day, from year to year, and have greater capacity to do things as the years come and the years go.

The indestructible is one: it is each individual human being and, at the same time, it is common to all, hence the incomparably indivisible union that exists between human beings.

A lion is not a lion is not a lion. As individuals, as mates, as members of a society, they're all very different.

Market competition is the only form of organization which can afford a large measure of freedom to the individual.

Every civilization depends upon the quality of the individuals it produces.

Individuals bearing witness cannot do the work of social movements, but they can break a corrosive and demoralizing silence.

Concealment is equated, unknowingly to ourselves, with individuality; the more we conceal the more it seems we are asserting our very personality, resisting a somewhat repellent, unwelcome intrusion of other things into ourselves.

Within this widest concept of object, and specifically within the concept of individual object, Objects and phenomena stand in contrast with each other.

The worst curse to befall anyone is stagnation, a banal existence, the quiet desperation that comes out of a need for conformity.

Sin defies God, utterly corrupts each individual, corrodes all social relationships, and issues in death.

Each day has its own individuality of color.

Only a few individuals succeed in throwing off mythology in a time of a certain intellectual supremacy--the mass never frees itself.

In philosophy an individual is becoming himself.

The fight we are in here, make no mistake about it, is a fight of individualism versus collectivism.

Capitalism is based on individual rights - not on the sacrifice of the individual to the 'public good' of the collective.

The integrative tendencies of the individual are incomparably more dangerous than his self-assertive tendencies.

The problem of individual differences and group differences would not be made to disappear by abolishing tests. One cannot treat a fever by throwing away the thermometer.

I honestly consider that the greatest gift to me, is the reaction that I get from my work. That is a given which I never, ever take for granted. But to be given that by audiences, individuals, on the street, in the theater, is an extraordinary feeling.

I never saw myself as an individual who had any particular leadership powers.

Is it not a terrible thing to be forced by society to do things which all of us as individuals regard as abominable crimes?

It would be against all nature for all the Negroes to be either at the bottom, top, or in between. We will go where the internal drive carries us like everybody else. It is up to the individual.