In his state of complete powerlessness the individual perceives the time he has left to live as a brief reprieve.
Theodor Adorno

It is hard to be an individual in Japan.
Haruki Murakami

I have no mystic faith in the people. I have in the individual.
E. M. Forster

Individual and national rights to wealth rest on the basis of civil and international law, or at least of custom that has the force of law.
Alfred Marshall

Most young people were getting jobs in big companies, becoming company men. I wanted to be individual.
Haruki Murakami

Without realizing it, the individual composes his life according to the laws of beauty even in times of greatest distress.
Milan Kundera

So it's not so much that I set out to do something different, it's just that the songs themselves require their own individual voice and attention.
Ben Harper

I abhor averages. I like the individual case. A man may have six meals one day and none the next, making an average of three meals per day, but that is not a good way to live.
Louis D. Brandeis

Poetry is the work of poets, not of peoples or communities; artistic creation can never be anything but the production of an individual mind.
Lascelles Abercrombie

It's okay for Christians throughout centuries to exterminate races and for their priests to rape little kids throughout decades, but trying to give the people the power to think and be individual, that's evil?
Glenn Danzig

Prior to an individual's encounter with the love of God at a particular time in history, however, there has to be another, more fundamental and archetypal encounter, which belongs to the conditions of possibility of the appearance of divine love to man.
Hans Urs von Balthasar

Groups are grammatical fictions; only individuals exist, and each individual is different.
Robert Anton Wilson

Wash four distinct and separate times, using lots of lather each time from individual bars of soap.
Howard Hughes

We fought no better, perhaps, than they. We exhibited, perhaps, no higher individual qualities.
Joshua Chamberlain

Success depends in a very large measure upon individual initiative and exertion, and cannot be achieved except by a dint of hard work.
Anna Pavlova

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

An image is not simply a trademark, a design, a slogan or an easily remembered picture. It is a studiously crafted personality profile of an individual, institution, corporation, product or service.
Daniel J. Boorstin

But my dad also was a remarkable man, a good person, a principled individual, a man of integrity.
Sidney Poitier

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

It is vain to talk of the interest of the community, without understanding what is the interest of the individual.
Jeremy Bentham