Individual Quotes - Page 50

Society evolves not by shouting each other down, but by the unique capacity of unique, individual human beings to comprehend each other.

In 1973, the Supreme Court ruled that individual communities should set obscenity standards. Whenever a case is tried, it will be based on a community standard for that particular place.

All great cathedrals began their building by the placement of a single stone. The building unit of a great society is the individual.

I specialize in what the French call la petite histoire. I am interested in the individual thumbprint.

In a country like India, we don't want to put everyone in one big mixture. We have a different language, culture and cuisine for each region, even though we are united in the larger context. We are more like a fruit salad, where each ingredient has its own specialty, each fruit its distinct flavor, and together, the salad makes a tasty dish, without losing the individuality of each constituent.

Unless you hit your television with a sledgehammer, you're not going to be able to be an individual.

As a director, I try not to implement a way for working, for every single actor, across the board. I try to work with each one, on an individual basis.

What changes with fame is the perceptions of the individual rather than the individual.

We can convince ourselves to do things in conjunction with one another that we wouldn't have been able to do as an individual.

The individual who has become a stranger to himself has lost the capacity for genuine self-renewal.

The creative individual is particularly gifted in seeing the gap between what is and what could be.

In proportion to the development of his individuality, each person becomes more valuable to himself, and is therefore capable of being more valuable to others. . . .

It is the peculiar province of the legislature to prescribe general rules for the government of society; the application of those rules to individuals in society would seem to be the duty of other departments.

I see no magic in tax dollars which are sent to Washington and then returned. I abhor the waste and incompetence of large-scale federal bureaucracies in this administration as well as in others. I do not favor state compulsion when voluntary individual effort can do the job and do it well.

Truth does not belong to an individual.

We insist that God must surely lead everyone as we believe He has led us. We refuse to allow God the freedom to deal with each of us as individuals. When we think like that, we are legalistic.

The writer is committed when he plunges to the very depths of himself with the intent to disclose, not his individuality, but his person in the complex society that conditions and supports him.

Time is found in the calibration of the individual to the timing of a collective endeavour, the social grace that less clock-bound societies must practise.

Individuals achieve optimal stupidity when they're given substantial powers while being insulated from the results of their actions.

On Wall Street, there is no "Wall Street"; there are individuals.

There is little evidence that our individual intelligence has improved through recorded history.

The individual who is the servant of technique must be completely unconscious of himself.

Every individual has a unique contribution.

We're not all the same. A common liberal refrain is that differences between individuals are statistically more significant than those between cultural, ethnic, and racial groups. I don't see why the fact of inter-individual differences would nullify inter-group variance. That's liberal logic for you.

Regeneration can come only through a change of heart in the individual.