Individual Quotes - Page 9

What each individual wills is obstructed by everyone else, and what emerges is something that no one willed.

Fascism accepts the individual only insofar as his interests coincide with the state's.

Stillness within one individual can affect society beyond measure.

The greatest enemy of individual freedom is the individual himself.

All novels are about certain minorities: the individual is a minority. The universal in the novel-and isn't that what we're all clamoring for these days?-is reached only through the depiction of the specific man in a specific circumstance.

The uneducated person perceives only the individual phenomenon, the partly educated person the rule, and the educated person the exception.

Be who you are and don't allow anyone to affect the confidence you have in your individuality.

It's multifaceted, the message to our music. It's not just that. It's about individuality, development of self, finding things in life that you can be passionate about.

I am never interested in the individual, but in the human species and its environment.

If the environment permits it, anyone can learn whatever he chooses to learn, and if the individual permits it, the environment will teach him everything it has to teach.

At crucial junctures, every individual makes decisions and ... every decision is individual.

To be an individual is the hardest thing in the world, because nobody likes you to be an individual. Everybody wants to kill your individuality and to make a sheep out of you. Nobody wants you to be on your own.

There is a spark of idealism within every individual which can be fanned into flame and bring forth extraordinary results.

Nobody owes anybody anything; it's up to each individual to set high standards for himself or herself, and to set about working hard and creating a solid future.

The heterosexuality or homosexuality of many individuals is not an all-or-none proposition.

Evil is the interruption of a truth by the pressure of particular or individual interests.

The curiosity of the neighbors about you, is a tribute to your individuality, and you should encourage it

Society exists only as a mental concept; in the real world there are only individuals.

Whatever an education is, it should make you a unique individual, not a conformist.

Political violence is organized violence on the top which creates individual violence at the bottom.

I feel more confident than ever that the power to save the planet rests with the individual consumer.

If I'm going to sing like someone else, then I don't need to sing at all.

Indecision is actually the individual’s decision to fail.

There is nothing about an individual as important as his IQ, except possibly his morals.

Taking into account the public's regrettable lack of taste, it is incumbent upon you not to fit in.