Individual Quotes

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.

Humanity, Living, Until

We must reject the idea that every time a law's broken, society is guilty rather than the lawbreaker. It is time to restore the American precept that each individual is accountable for his actions.
Ronald Reagan

Time, Society, Law

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

Live, Person, Marry

The individual has always had to struggle to keep from being overwhelmed by the tribe. If you try it, you will be lonely often, and sometimes frightened. But no price is too high to pay for the privilege of owning yourself.
Friedrich Nietzsche

Yourself, Lonely, Struggle

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

Everyone, Respected, Idolized

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

Society, Human, Valuable

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

Destiny, Rather, High

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

Respected, Idolized

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

Life, Nothing, Down

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

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

Human, Behind, Ethics

An individual who breaks a law that conscience tells him is unjust, and who willingly accepts the penalty of imprisonment in order to arouse the conscience of the community over its injustice, is in reality expressing the highest respect for the law.
Martin Luther King, Jr.

Respect, Reality, Him

I submit that an individual who breaks the law that conscience tells him is unjust and willingly accepts the penalty by staying in jail to arouse the conscience of the community over its injustice, is in reality expressing the very highest respect for law.
Martin Luther King, Jr.

Respect, Reality, Him

Individual rights are not subject to a public vote; a majority has no right to vote away the rights of a minority; the political function of rights is precisely to protect minorities from oppression by majorities (and the smallest minority on earth is the individual).
Ayn Rand

Political, Away, Vote

Rightful liberty is unobstructed action according to our will within limits drawn around us by the equal rights of others. I do not add 'within the limits of the law' because law is often but the tyrant's will, and always so when it violates the rights of the individual.
Thomas Jefferson

Law, Liberty, Others

The smallest minority on earth is the individual. Those who deny individual rights cannot claim to be defenders of minorities.
Ayn Rand

Cannot, Earth, Rights

The ultimate authority must always rest with the individual's own reason and critical analysis.
Dalai Lama

Reason, Rest, Authority

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.
Mahatma Gandhi

Simple, Humility, Enough

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

Remember, Obligation

True individual freedom cannot exist without economic security and independence. People who are hungry and out of a job are the stuff of which dictatorships are made.
Franklin D. Roosevelt

Freedom, True, Job

Man, the living creature, the creating individual, is always more important than any established style or system.
Bruce Lee

Important, Living, System

The battle for the individual rights of women is one of long standing and none of us should countenance anything which undermines it.
Eleanor Roosevelt

Women, Long, Battle

Individual commitment to a group effort - that is what makes a team work, a company work, a society work, a civilization work.
Vince Lombardi

Work, Society, Team

What is true of the individual will be tomorrow true of the whole nation if individuals will but refuse to lose heart and hope.
Mahatma Gandhi

Hope, Heart, True

China has to go along with world trends. That's democracy, liberty, individual freedom. China sooner or later has to go that way. It cannot go backward.
Dalai Lama

Freedom, Democracy, Liberty

Protecting the rights of even the least individual among us is basically the only excuse the government has for even existing.
Ronald Reagan

Government, Rights, Among

Feelings of worth can flourish only in an atmosphere where individual differences are appreciated, mistakes are tolerated, communication is open, and rules are flexible - the kind of atmosphere that is found in a nurturing family.
Virginia Satir

Family, Mistakes, Feelings

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

God, Door, Private

The game has its ups and downs, but you can never lose focus of your individual goals and you can't let yourself be beat because of lack of effort.
Michael Jordan

Yourself, Focus, Game

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

Men, Truth, Treasure

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