Individual Quotes

As to the question of elected or not elected, each member of the European Commission has been appointed jointly by the governments of the 15 member states, and undergone individual scrutiny and a vote of confidence from the European Parliament.

The fact that tradition hinders the individual savage from thinking logically by no means proves that he cannot think logically.

Nature is a collective idea, and, though its essence exist in each individual of the species, can never in its perfection inhabit a single object.

I don't know what any individual should do about crossing her own borders. I only know that I live a happier, more adventurous life, by crossing borders.

The world before 1914 was already a world in which the welfare of each individual nation was inextricably bound up with the prosperity of the whole community of nations.

Each individual is unique. We all have equal worth. Young and old, those who can cope and those who need help.

Now the identification of individual sounds by phonetic observation is an artificial way of proceeding.

There is not one big cosmic meaning for all, there is only the meaning we each give to our life, an individual meaning, an individual plot, like an individual novel, a book for each person.

Whenever you discuss politics, it is always better to use individual names rather then the term neocon.

We need do no more than repeat: only under communism does the individual become himself and lead his own life.

To observe a profoundly stupid individual can be very enriching, and that's why we should never feel contempt for them.

An individual has not started living until he can rise above the narrow confines of his individualistic concerns to the broader concerns of all humanity.

I don't think it's government's job to find health care for people. I think it's the individual's job to find health care.

I'm a huge fan of world cinema, because each country uses cinema in a very individual way.

You may have heard the world is made up of atoms and molecules, but it's really made up of stories. When you sit with an individual that's been here, you can give quantitative data a qualitative overlay.

As an individual I was known as the DJ or the mixer.

I think I'm learning to be bolder in my career choices and be more confident in my personal life. I haven't always felt very secure as an individual, but now I feel I certain confidence and sense of self that gets me through the day a lot better than before.

It is rare that even a jazz musician finds an individual voice.

People are first and foremost Republicans, first and foremost Anarchists, first and foremost a man or woman, and that is a mistake. It hurts the individual and it hurts the whole.

I claim to be a simple individual liable to err like any other fellow mortal. I own, however, that I have humility enough to confess my errors and to retrace my steps.

True freedom is where an individual's thoughts and actions are in alignment with that which is true, correct, and of honor - no matter the personal price.

Happiness lies neither in vice nor in virtue; but in the manner we appreciate the one and the other, and the choice we make pursuant to our individual organization.

It's not an Israeli model, it's a TSA, screwed-up model. It should actually be the person who's looking at the ticket and talking to the individual. Instead, they've hired people to stand around and observe, which is a bastardization of what should be done.

The spirit of self-help is the root of all genuine growth in the individual.

There are few better measures of the concern a society has for its individual members and its own well being than the way it handles criminals.

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.