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

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

Morality is the herd-instinct in the individual.
Friedrich Nietzsche

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

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

Individual rights are the means of subordinating society to moral law.
Ayn Rand

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

Character, in the long run, is the decisive factor in the life of an individual and of nations alike.
Theodore Roosevelt

All personal achievement starts in the mind of the individual. Your personal achievement starts in your mind. The first step is to know exactly what your problem, goal or desire is.
W. Clement Stone

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

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

Mysticism is the mistake of an accidental and individual symbol for an universal one.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

There is not one big cosmic meaning for all, there is only the meaning we each give to our life, an individual meaning, an individual plot, like an individual novel, a book for each person.
Anais Nin

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

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

The whole theory of the universe is directed unerringly to one single individual.
Walt Whitman

A belligerent state permits itself every such misdeed, every such act of violence, as would disgrace the individual.
Sigmund Freud

The liberty of the individual is no gift of civilization. It was greatest before there was any civilization.
Sigmund Freud

Arms in the hands of citizens may be used at individual discretion... in private self-defense.
John Adams

It is not history which uses men as a means of achieving - as if it were an individual person - its own ends. History is nothing but the activity of men in pursuit of their ends.
Karl Marx