For each individual, sport is a possible source for inner improvement.
Pierre de Coubertin

The Games were created for the glorification of the individual champion.
Pierre de Coubertin

In a market economy, however, the individual has some possibility of escaping from the power of the state.
Peter L. Berger

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

It is a strange fact that freedom and equality, the two basic ideas of democracy, are to some extent contradictory. Logically considered, freedom and equality are mutually exclusive, just as society and the individual are mutually exclusive.
Thomas Mann

A man lives not only his personal life, as an individual, but also, consciously or unconsciously, the life of his epoch and his contemporaries.
Thomas Mann

Genius is essentially creative; it bears the stamp of the individual who possesses it.
Madame de Stael

People often complain that music is too ambiguous, that what they should think when they hear it is so unclear, whereas everyone understands words. With me, it is exactly the opposite, and not only with regard to an entire speech but also with individual words.
Felix Mendelssohn

In earlier religions the spirit of the time was expressed through the individual and confirmed by miracles. In modern religions the spirit is expressed through the many and confirmed by reason.
Heinrich Heine

Fear is, I believe, a most effective tool in destroying the soul of an individual - and the soul of a people.
Anwar Sadat

Absolute liberty is absence of restraint; responsibility is restraint; therefore, the ideally free individual is responsible to himself.
Henry B. Adams

The level of shyness has gone up dramatically in the last decade. I think shyness is an index of social pathology rather than a pathology of the individual.
Philip Zimbardo

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

History has always been a series of pendulum swings, but the individual doesn't have to get caught in that.
Robert Johnson

The anguish of the neurotic individual is the same as that of the saint. The neurotic, the saint are engaged in the same battle. Their blood flows from similar wounds. But the first one gasps and the other one gives.
Georges Bataille

It was a requirement by the veterans to list the 57,000 names. We're reaching a time that we'll acknowledge the individual in a war on a national level.
Maya Lin

The definition of a modern approach to war is the acknowledgement of individual lives lost.
Maya Lin

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

Anglo-Saxon civilization has taught the individual to protect his own rights; American civilization will teach him to respect the rights of others.
William Jennings Bryan

The freedom of each individual can only be the freedom of all.
Friedrich Durrenmatt