Individual Quotes

The range of choice open to the individual is not the decisive factor in determining the degree of h...

I'm sorry to disappoint you, but my experience belongs to me, not the collective bloody unconscious.

Today the individual has become the highest form, and the greatest bane, of artistic creation. The s...

Individual science fiction stories may seem as trivial as ever to the blinder critics and philosophe...

My evanescent anarchistic tendencies are purely classical. I use the word anarchist in the sense in ...

Nobody, who has not been in the interior of a family, can say what the difficulties of any individua...

The channels of intuitive knowledge are opened according to the intensity of individual need.

The regeneration of society is the regeneration of society by individual education.

On the one hand, there are individual actions such as throwing, pushing, touching, rubbing. It is th...

You have to be a light to yourself in a world that is utterly becoming dark.

I hate people who collect things and classify things and give them names and then forget all about t...

The individual is not accountable to society for his actions in so far as these concern the interest...

By nature, I really am a fairly bouncy and sunny individual.

Society does not consist of individuals, but expresses the sum of interrelations, the relations with...

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

I'm not the kind of person who tries to be cool or trendy, I'm definitely an individual.

Today the predatory state, or the predatory group of states, with power of total destruction, is no ...

The choice, however, is as clear now for nations as it was once for the individual: peace or extinct...

The rules or 'laws' of poetry are only tentative devices, an approximate scheme. There is no Sinaiti...

The general will rules in society as the private will governs each separate individual.

Individual freedom is a Jewish idea, but it's one of the functions of Christianity to make this idea...

Even the most wretched individual of our present society could not exist and develop without the cum...

No peace is possible between the novelist and the agélaste [those who do not laugh]. Never having he...

The uniform is that which we do not choose, that which is assigned to us; it is the certitude of the...

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

We are parts of one universe, true enough. We stand within an almost infinite network of relationshi...

Swimming against the current is not idiotic if the waters are racing toward a waterfall.

I don't much care whether rural Anatolians or Istanbul secularists take power. I'm not close to any ...

The decision must be made between Judaism and Christianity, between business and culture, between ma...

Dreadful will be the day when the world becomes contented, when one great universal satisfaction spr...

Excess of liberty, whether it lies in state or individuals, seems only to pass into excess of slaver...

There is one other error in the Gondsman's line of resoning, I believe, on ap urely emotional level....

This is the history of governments, - one man does something which is to bind another. A man who can...

The most thoroughly and relentlessly damned, banned, excluded, condemned, forbidden, ostracized, ign...

You don't have freedom because you are a hyphenated American; you have freedom because you are an in...

Our goals can only be achieved with a society that respects and equally protects the rights of every...

Protecting the rights of even the least individual among us is basically the only excuse the governm...

Whatever my individual desires were to be free, I was not alone. There were many others who felt the...

Society cares for the individual only so far as he is profitable.

There can't be that many individual souls. Not souls like mine. There isn't room. There can't be.

The crowd, in fact, is composed of individuals; it must therefore be in every man's power to become ...

The progress of an artist is a continual self-sacrifice, a continual extinction of personality.

No poet, no artist of any art, has his complete meaning alone. His significance, his appreciation is...

And I'm made up of everyone I've ever met who's changed the way I think. So who is "me"?

Society is a republic. When an individual tries to lift themselves above others, they are dragged do...

The most desirable state of mankind is that which maintains general security with the smallest encro...

The community stagnates without the impulse of the individual. The impulse dies away without the sym...

The thoughts of othersWere light and fleeting,Of lovers' meetingOr luck or fame.Mine were of trouble...

Those words . . . national and portrait. They were both to do with identity: the identity of a cultu...

I am what I am Are you what you are or What?

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

The most shocking fact about war is that its victims and its instruments are individual human beings...

Experience has taught us that we have only one enduring weapon in our struggle against mental illnes...

Meditation, education and beauty are the three transforming powers that can change individual and th...

I never saw myself as an individual who had any particular leadership powers.

I am done with the monster of "We," the word of serfdom, of plunder, of misery, falsehood and shame....

There's something I would like to understand. And I don't think anyone can explain it. . . There's y...

For our face and body were beautiful. Our face was not like the faces of our brothers, for we felt n...

It is my eyes which see, and the sight of my eyes grants beauty to the earth. It is my ears which he...

I am neither foe nor friend to my brothers, but such as each of them shall deserve of me. And to ear...

For the word "We" must never be spoken, save by one's choice and as a second thought. This word must...

Since knowledge, thinking, and rational action are properties of the individual, since the choice to...

The mind is an attribute of the individual. There is no such thing as a collective brain. There is n...

Society attacks early, when the individual is helpless.

I would rather be what God chose to make me than the most glorious creature that I could think of; f...

Men are free when they are obeying some deep, inward voice of religious belief. Obeying from within....

Generalization is a natural human mental process, and many generalizations are true—in average. What...

We're all on each other's food chain. All of us. It's an individual sport. Welcome to the meaning of...

Only our individual faith in freedom can keep us free.

I think it’s important to reason from first principles rather than by analogy. The normal way we con...

Indeed, with the experience of self disappears the experience of identity - and when this happens, m...

The "pathology of normalcy" rarely deteriorates to graver forms of mental illness because society pr...

What holds true for the individual holds true for a society. It is never static; if it does not grow...

Both the mentally healthy and the neurotic are driven by the need to find an answer [to the problem ...

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

In the second place, however, history is made in such a way that the final result always arises from...

It is the business of the very few to be independent; it is a privilege of the strong. And whoever a...

Every select man strives instinctively for a citadel and a privacy, where he is FREE from the crowd,...

The progress of the world can certainly never come at all save by the modified action of the individ...

Who will protect your rights better? A king, president or you? Who will protect the truth? A reporte...