Individual Quotes

There's a flipside to this; if you as an individual have the right to live on your own terms, you must have the right to both succeed and fail on them.

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

I regard the principle of conscription of life as a flat contradiction of all our cherished ideals of individual freedom, democratic liberty and Christian teaching.

Anglo-Saxon civilization has taught the individual to protect his own rights; American civilization will teach him to respect the rights of others.

Social psychology has, as a rule, dealt with various phases of social experience from the psychological standpoint of individual experience.

My goal in sailing isn't to be brilliant or flashy in individual races, just to be consistent over the long run.

The public good is in nothing more essentially interested, than in the protection of every individual's private rights.

In our society, daily experience teaches the individual to want and need a never-ending supply of new toys and drugs.

An image is not simply a trademark, a design, a slogan or an easily remembered picture. It is a studiously crafted personality profile of an individual, institution, corporation, product or service.

The injustice done to an individual is sometimes of service to the public.

No very sharp line can be drawn between social psychology and individual psychology.

For the first time in human evolution, the individual life is long enough, and the cultural transformation swift enough, that the individual mind is now a constituent player in the global transformation of human culture.

There is a secret pride in every human heart that revolts at tyranny. You may order and drive an individual, but you cannot make him respect you.

I think what actually works best is local-level individual targeting of key leadership nodes.

You can't do opera when already from the 10th row you can only see little dolls on the stage. In such an enormous space you can't put much faith in the personal presence of the individual singer, which is reflected in facial expressions, among other things.

You have always had individual directors who begin in the advertising or commercial world, but they are probably exceptions rather than the traditional pattern.

Our funding is based on our support of ideas like limited government, individual rights and a strong defense.

One of the gaps in our international development efforts is the provision of global public goods - that is, goods or conditions we need that no individual or country can secure on their own, such as halting global warming, financial stability and peace and security.

Kafka truly illustrates the way the environment oppresses the individual. He shows how the unconscious controls our lives.

It is hard to be an individual in Japan.

I'll admit that I'm not quite certain how to sum up an entire year in music anymore; not when music has become so temporal, so specific and personal, as if we each have our own weather system and what we listen to is our individual forecast.

Fiction has consisted either of placing imaginary characters in a true story, which is the Iliad, or of presenting the story of an individual as having a general historical value, which is the Odyssey.

There is a crying need today to have this truth heralded throughout the land that youth especially may appreciate and hold the freedom of the individual as sacred as did our revolutionary fathers.

Remember always that you not only have the right to be an individual, you have an obligation to be one.

Most young people were getting jobs in big companies, becoming company men. I wanted to be individual.

But my dad also was a remarkable man, a good person, a principled individual, a man of integrity.

People often complain that music is too ambiguous, that what they should think when they hear it is so unclear, whereas everyone understands words. With me, it is exactly the opposite, and not only with regard to an entire speech but also with individual words.

Skype is for any individual who has a broadband Internet connection.

The universe bursts into existence from life, not the other way around as we have been taught. For each life there is a universe, its own universe. We generate spheres of reality, individual bubbles of existence. Our planet is comprised of billions of spheres of reality, generated by each individual human and perhaps even by each animal.

In the latter case life rests upon a thousand presuppositions which the individual can never trace back to their origins, and verify; but which he must accept upon faith and belief.