Individual Quotes - Page 31

Like all pure creatures, cats are practical.

If you could say of any one individual that the court as an institution is the length and shadow of that individual, surely it would be John Marshall.

No task is so humble that it does not offer an outlet for individuality.

Adventure is the vitaminizing element in histories both individual and social.

Individual misfortunes give rise to the general good; so that the more individual misfortunes exist, the more all is fine.

The power of the individual is as powerful as the universe is infinite.

What is true of every member of the society, individually, is true of them all collectively; since the rights of the whole can be no more than the sum of the rights of the individuals.

Large portions of life's disappointments are individuals who did not understand that they were so near achievement when they surrendered.

In his state of complete powerlessness the individual perceives the time he has left to live as a brief reprieve.

What the psychedelics are for us as a species, rather than for each one of us as an individual, what they are for us as a species is an enzyme that catalyzes the language-making capacity.

Society values cooperation over independence, obedience over individuality, and niceness above all else.

Not a lot of individuals get to refer to the Lord in their prayers as 'Dude', but he's doing a new thing with me.

Remember...that each child is a separate person, yours forever, but never fully yours. She can never be all you wished or wanted,or all you know she could be. But she will be a better human being if you can let her be herself.

The liberty of the individual is no gift of civilization. It was greatest before there was any civilization.

I'm not a slave to fashion; I'm into exercising my individuality.

The society is the extension of the individual. If the individual is greedy, cruel, merciless, egoistic, etc. so it will be the society.

Poetry’s medium is the individual chest and throat and mouth of whoever undertakes to say the poem.

The Church of Reason, like all institutions of the System, is based not on individual strength but upon individual weakness. What's really demanded in the Church of Reason is not ability, but inability. Then you are considered teachable. A truly able person is always a threat.

Capitalism is about producing a better product at a better price. As individuals, we have to keep producing better products at a better price, also, or we're obsolete.

A God capable of continuously monitoring and controlling the individual status of every particle in the universe cannot be simple. His existence is going to need a mammoth explanation in its own right.

Every individual is essentially now a small business and entrepreneur.

Judgements like "right" and "wrong"; only build barriers and encourage shame within individuals.

The organization cannot trust the individual; the individual must trust the organization.

As one individual changes, the system changes.

And truly it demands something godlike in him who cast off the common motives of humanity and ventured to trust himself for a taskmaster.