Individual Quotes

In my view the structure of the whole atom was that of an individual, with all its parts interconnected, and the emission of a spectral line appeared to me to be the result of the coherence and co-operation of several electric quanta.

All real freedom springs from necessity, for it can be gained only through the exercise of the individual will, and that will can be roused to energetic action only by the force of necessity acting upon it from the outside to spur it to effort.

Identity in the form of continuity of personality is an extremely important characteristic of the individual.

Every diminution of the public burdens arising from taxation gives to individual enterprise increased power and furnishes to all the members of our happy confederacy new motives for patriotic affection and support.

The average trade of an individual is in the thousands of shares, whereas the institutional trade can be in the millions of shares. Clearly, the bigger the order, the bigger the move in the stock.

It was a place that is trying to destroy the individual by every means possible; trying to break his spirit, so that he accepts that he is No. 6 and will live there happily as No. 6 for ever after. And this is the one rebel that they can't break.

Singing your own songs is all about individual expression.

I would not give half a guinea to live under one form of government other than another. It is of no moment to the happiness of an individual.

The salary of the chief executive of a large corporation is not a market award for achievement. It is frequently in the nature of a warm personal gesture by the individual to himself.

The individual always realizes only one of the possibilities in its development, which could always have taken a different turning whenever it has to make an important decision.

A hero is an ordinary individual who finds the strength to persevere and endure in spite of overwhelming obstacles.

The most important element of a free society, where individual rights are held in the highest esteem, is the rejection of the initiation of violence.

First, then, State Socialism, which may be described as the doctrine that all the affairs of men should be managed by the government, regardless of individual choice.

The three-thousand hitting thing was the first time I let individual pressure get to me. I was uptight about it. When I saw the hit going through, I had a sigh of relief more than anything.

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

But the further step, by means of which a civilization is given its quality or culture, is only attained by a process of cellular division, in the course of which the individual is differentiated, made distinct from and independent of the parent group.

Nixon was the most dishonest individual I have ever met in my life. He lied to his wife, his family, his friends, his colleagues in the Congress, lifetime members of his own political party, the American people and the world.

It is more noble to give yourself completely to one individual than to labor diligently for the salvation of the masses.

Indian religion has always felt that since the minds, the temperaments and the intellectual affinities of men are unlimited in their variety, a perfect liberty of thought and of worship must be allowed to the individual in his approach to the Infinite.

War grows out of the desire of the individual to gain advantage at the expense of his fellow man.

You don't have freedom because you are a hyphenated American; you have freedom because you are an individual, and that should be protected.

I think every individual has his or her own power, and it's a matter of working, taking time and defining what that power is.

We believe that the government has an important role to create the conditions that promote entrepreneurship, upward mobility, and individual responsibility.

I'm at the point in my career where to be a winner is more important than any individual things.

I describe not men, but manners; not an individual, but a species.

An audience is never wrong. An individual member of it may be an imbecile, but a thousand imbeciles together in the dark - that is critical genius.

Few things are more important to each individual's future success or to our nation's prosperity than education.

The whole of the Bill is a declaration of the right of the people at large or considered as individuals... It establishes some rights of the individual as unalienable and which consequently, no majority has a right to deprive them of.

If somebody asks me whether I'd rather sink the winning putt in the Ryder Cup or win a major, it's the major every day. World championship or Ryder Cup? Win a world championship. At the end of the day you're going to be remembered for what you achieve in an individual sport.

It was not always easy because I was always an individual and found it difficult to be one of a group. One person who was very supportive was my father. My mother was great but my father really recognised my individuality and supported me in that.