Individual Quotes - Page 6

National progress is the sum of individual industry, energy, and uprightness, as national decay is of individual idleness, selfishness, and vice.

Why is the killing of a million a lesser crime than the killing of an individual?

Art always opts for the individual, the concrete; art is not Platonic.

We must show that liberty is not merely one particular value but that it is the source and condition of most moral values. What a free society offers to the individual is much more than what he would be able to do if only he were free. We can therefore not fully appreciate the value of freedom until we know how a society of free men as a whole differs from one in which unfreedom prevails.

Truth is not to be found either in traditional capitalism or in Marxism. Each represents a partial truth. Historically, capitalism failed to discern the truth in collective enterprise and Marxism failed to see the truth in individual enterprise.

Libertarianism is rejected by the modern left - which preaches individualism but practices collectivism. Capitalism is rejected by the modern right-which preaches enterprise but practices protectionism.

However gifted an individual is at the outset, if his or her talents cannot be developed because of his or her social condition, because of the surrounding circumstances, these talents will be still-born.

Only the subject's individual consciousness can testify for the unwitnessed acts, and there is no act more deprived of external testimony than the act of knowing.

It was their individuality combined with the shyness of their behavior that remained the most captivating impression of this first encounter with the greatest of the great apes.

Beauty isn't about looking perfect. It's about celebrating your individuality.

In a society that tries to standardize thinking, individuality is not highly prized.

Society's needs come before the individuals needs

Relations between States, as between individuals, must be regulated not by armed force, but in accordance with...truth, justice and vigorous and sincere co-operation.

why are trying so hard to fit in, when you're born to stand out

God's image…is found not best in individual humans, but in humans as they relate to each other.

Every individual was put on this earth to accomplish some purpose bigger than just making a living.

True education makes for inequality; the inequality of individuality, the inequality of success, the glorious inequality of talent, of genius.

No social stability without individual stability.

A dialogue among civilizations can be seen as a dialogue between the individual and the universal.

Can someone explain the vitriol whenever Ayn Rand comes up? 'Atlas' is the greatest motivator for the individual that I can imagine.

If globalization seeks to bring all of us together, but to do so respecting each person, each individual person's peculiarity, that globalization is good and makes us good and grow and leads to peace.

Originality is... a by-product of sincerity.

Nature chooses who will be transgender; individuals don't choose this.

Whatever crushes individuality is despotism.

I have hope in people, in individuals. Because you don't know what's going to rise from the ruins.