Individual Quotes

Anarchism is the great liberator of man from the phantoms that have held him captive; it is the arbiter and pacifier of the two forces for individual and social harmony.
Emma Goldman

Great, Him, Two

Every successful individual knows that his or her achievement depends on a community of persons working together.
Paul Ryan

Successful, Together, Working

If an individual wants to be a leader and isn't controversial, that means he never stood for anything.
Richard M. Nixon

Leader, Means, Wants

A public man must never forget that he loses his usefulness when he as an individual, rather than his policy, becomes the issue.
Richard M. Nixon

Forget, Rather, Public

Evil is not to be traced back to the individual but to the collective behavior of humanity.
Reinhold Niebuhr

Evil, Humanity, Behavior

Majority rule only works if you're also considering individual rights. Because you can't have five wolves and one sheep voting on what to have for supper.
Larry Flynt

Voting, Rights, Works

I would not give half a guinea to live under one form of government other than another. It is of no moment to the happiness of an individual.
Samuel Johnson

Happiness, Government, Live

We need to shift from an economic organizing principle for human civilization, to a humanitarian organizing principle. Making money more important than your own children is a pathological way for an individual to run their affairs, and it's a pathological way for a society to run its affairs.
Marianne Williamson

Money, Society, Children

To a person in love, the value of the individual is intuitively known. Love needs no logic for its mission.
Charles Lindbergh

Love, Person, Value

So what is so strange about saying I want Barack Obama to fail if his mission is to reconstruct and reform this nation so that capitalism and individual liberty are not its foundation? I want the country to survive. I want the country to succeed.
Rush Limbaugh

Saying, Country, Strange

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

Design, Service, Picture

Whenever we seek to avoid the responsibility for our own behavior, we do so by attempting to give that responsibility to some other individual or organization or entity. But this means we then give away our power to that entity.
M. Scott Peck

Power, Give, Away

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

Fear, Soul, Effective

Neither the life of an individual nor the history of a society can be understood without understanding both.
C. Wright Mills

Life, History, Society

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

Cool, Person, Definitely

Keep in mind that the true measure of an individual is how he treats a person who can do him absolutely no good.
Ann Landers

Good, Mind, True

Consider any individual at any period of his life, and you will always find him preoccupied with fresh plans to increase his comfort.
Alexis de Tocqueville

Life, Him, Find

Self-image sets the boundaries of individual accomplishment.
Maxwell Maltz

Boundaries, Sets

I think the importance of doing activist work is precisely because it allows you to give back and to consider yourself not as a single individual who may have achieved whatever but to be a part of an ongoing historical movement.
Angela Davis

Work, Yourself, Single

For behind all imperialism is ultimately the imperialistic individual, just as behind all peace is ultimately the peaceful individual.
Irving Babbitt

Peace, Behind, Peaceful

An audience is never wrong. An individual member of it may be an imbecile, but a thousand imbeciles together in the dark - that is critical genius.
Billy Wilder

May, Together, Dark

Individual versus group selection results in a mix of altruism and selfishness, of virtue and sin, among the members of a society.
E. O. Wilson

Society, Group, Results

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

Whenever an individual or a business decides that success has been attained, progress stops.
Thomas J. Watson

Success, Business, Progress

The moment someone chooses to trust in Jesus Christ, his sins are wiped away, and he is adopted into God's family. That individual is set apart as a child of God, with a sacred purpose.
Charles Stanley

Trust, Family, God

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

Society, Far, Cares

What a curious phenomenon it is that you can get men to die for the liberty of the world who will not make the little sacrifice that is needed to free themselves from their own individual bondage.
Bruce Barton

Men, Sacrifice, Die

An individual ant, even though it has a brain about a millionth of a size of a human being's, can learn a maze; the kind we use is a simple rat maze in a laboratory. They can learn it about one-half as fast as a rat.
E. O. Wilson

Simple, Human, Brain

The individual is not accountable to society for his actions in so far as these concern the interests of no person but himself.
John Stuart Mill

Society, Person, Far

We believe, as our founders did, that 'the pursuit of happiness' depends upon individual liberty; and individual liberty requires limited government.
Paul Ryan

Happiness, Government, Liberty

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