Individual Quotes

Majority rule only works if you're also
considering individual rights,
because you can't have five wolves and one sheep
voting on what to have for dinner.
- Larry Flynt

Don't marry the person you think you can live with;
marry only the individual you think you can't live without.
- James C. Dobson

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

The price of freedom for a nation is lives and money.
Often, the price of freedom for an individual
is challenging the closed minds of family and friend.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

The high destiny of the individual is to serve rather than to rule.
- Albert Einstein

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

Truth is the property of no individual
but is the treasure of all men.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

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.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.

When trouble arises and things look bad,
there is always one individual who perceives a solution
and is willing to take command.
Very often, that individual is crazy.
- Dave Barry

No individual has any right to come into the world
and go out of it without leaving something behind.
- George Washington Carver

The ultimate authority must always rest
with the individual's own reason and critical analysis.
- Tenzin Gyatso, the 14th Dalai Lama

Let every man be respected as an individual
and no man idolized.
- Albert Einstein

Neither the life of an individual nor the history of
a society can be understood without understanding both.
- C. Wright Mills

God enters by a private door into each individual.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

Whenever an individual or a business decides that success has been attained,
progress stops.
- Thomas J. Watson

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.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi

It is only to the individual that a soul is given.
- Albert Einstein

There is no reason for any individual to have a computer in his home.
- Ken Olsen

To deal with individual human needs
at the everyday level can be noble sometimes.
- Jimmy Carter

There is nothing more tragic than to find an individual
bogged down in the length of life, devoid of breadth.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.

Corporation: An ingenious device for obtaining profit
without individual responsibility.
- Ambrose Bierce

Everyone should be respected as an individual,
but no one idolized.
- Albert Einstein

The inherent nature of God
is not changed by our individual beliefs,
our religious institutions,
or our communal traditions.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

For behind all imperialism is ultimately the imperialistic individual,
just as behind all peace is ultimately the peaceful individual.
- Irving Babbitt

Everything that is really great and inspiring
is created by the individual who can labor in freedom.
- Albert Einstein

I'm not sure I can say there is a clean line between
me as an individual and me as a lawyer.
- Anita Hill

A safe and nutritionally adequate diet is a basic individual
right and an essential condition for sustainable development,
especially in developing countries.
- Gro Harlem Brundtland

Growing up, I didn't have a lot of toys,
and personal entertainment depended on individual ingenuity and imagination -
think up a story and go live it for an afternoon.
- Terry Brooks

What the public expects and what is healthy for an
individual are two very different things.
- Esther Williams

All that is valuable in human society
depends upon the opportunity for development
accorded the individual.
- Albert Einstein

And while the law of competition may be sometimes hard for the individual,
it is best for the race, because it ensures the survival
of the fittest in every department.
- Andrew Carnegie

Trusting your individual uniqueness challenges you to lay yourself open.
- James Broughton

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

My philosophy from day one is that I can sleep better
at night if I can improve an individual's knowledge about food and wine,
and do it on a daily basis.
- Emeril Lagasse

One of the things I was taught in law school is that
I'd never be able to think the same again -
that being a lawyer is something that's part of who
I am as an individual now.
- Anita Hill

Under capitalism each individual engages in economic planning.
- George Reisman

We must stop thinking of the individual and start thinking
about what is best for society.
- Hillary Clinton

If we could give every individual the right amount
of nourishment and exercise,
not too little and not too much, we would have found
the safest way to health.
- Hippocrates

Teamwork is the ability to work together toward a common vision.
The ability to direct individual accomplishments
toward organizational objectives.
It is the fuel that allows common people to attain uncommon results.
- Andrew Carnegie

The work of the individual still remains the spark
that moves mankind ahead even more than teamwork.
- Igor Sikorsky

I must admit that I personally measure success
in terms of the contributions
an individual makes to her or his fellow human beings.
- Margaret Mead

Breaking up is a natural evolution
when you try to figure out what you want in life.
If you're with an individual
who isn't moving in the same direction
and at the same rate that you are,
it ain't going to work.
- Usher Raymond

Our individual lives cannot, generally,
be works of art unless the social order is also.
- Charles Horton Cooley

Every optimist moves along with progress and hastens it,
while every pessimist would keep the worlds at a standstill.
The consequence of pessimism in the life of a nation
is the same as in the life of the individual.
Pessimism kills the instinct that
urges men to struggle against poverty,
ignorance and crime, and dries up
all the fountains of joy in the world.
- Helen Keller

I do not believe in immortality of the individual,
and I consider ethics to be an exclusively human concern
with no superhuman authority behind it.
- Albert Einstein

I think vegetarianism is a crucial ethical choice for
an individual and a society.
- Bernhard Goetz

We do not support the man.
We do not support the individual.
We support the idea of independent revolution in the Western Hemisphere,
free from American intervention.
- Lee Harvey Oswald

Libertarians recognize the inevitable pluralism of
the modern world and for that reason assert that individual
liberty is at least part of the common good.
- Tom G. Palmer

Society cares for the individual only so far as he is profitable.
- Simone de Beauvoir

Georgian architecture respected the scale of both the
individual and the community.
- Stephen Gardiner

Within this widest concept of object,
and specifically within the concept of individual object,
Objects and phenomena stand in contrast with each other.
- Edmund Husserl

I think anytime you can affect people in general,
in a positive way, then you're a lucky individual.
- Sam Elliott

Isn't cricket supposed to be a team sport? I feel people
should decide first whether cricket is a team game or an individual sport.
- Sachin Tendulkar

Society needs people who can manage projects in addition
to handling individual tasks.
- Marilyn vos Savant

It is remarkable that jealousy of individual property
in land often goes along with very exaggerated doctrines
of tribal or national property in land.
- William Graham Sumner

Aesthetic matters are fundamental for the harmonious
development of both society and the individual.
- Friedrich Schiller

In my model, important interference phenomena arise
when individual strata come into contact.
These chaotic fluctuations are, I suppose,
what my music is really 'about.'
- Brian Ferneyhough

By shading off, as I have done, the portion of the
area of the diagram according to the individual age,
every one may see how much of life is consumed,
and what is left.
- Warren De la Rue

I met Jesse Owens once.
He was a remarkable individual, and I have tremendous
respect for what he did in the Olympics under the circumstances.
- Lee Trevino

Life is an operation which is done in a forward direction.
One lives toward the future, because to live consists inexorably in doing,
in each individual life making itself.
- Jose Ortega y Gasset

The idea that an individual can find God is terribly self-centered.
It is like a wave thinking it can find the sea.
- John Templeton

In the age of the individual's liquidation,
the question of individuality must be raised anew.
- Theodor Adorno

There can be no such thing, in law or in morality,
as actions to an individual, but permitted to a mob.
- Ayn Rand

The distinction between children and adults,
while probably useful for some purposes,
is at bottom a specious one, I feel.
There are only individual egos, crazy for love.
- Niccolo Machiavelli

For the Absolute, as we now know, all life is individual,
but is individual as expressing a meaning.
- Josiah Royce

Winners have the ability to step back from the canvas
of their lives like an artist gaining perspective.
They make their lives a work of art -
an individual masterpiece.
- Denis Waitley

Washington, where an insignificant individual
may trespass on a nation's time.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

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

Natural resources are so vast that no single individual
or business is going to protect them;
they don't have an incentive to.
- William Weld

Well, I have also believed in empowering the individual
and believe there is a degree of inertia in big government
that hampers the ability to respond to a rapidly evolving crisis.
- Michael Burgess

Honesty is the most single most important factor having
a direct bearing on the final success of an individual,
corporation, or product.
- Ed McMahon

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