Best Individual Quotes

Few things help an individual more than to place responsibility upon him, and to let him know that you trust him.

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

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

Just as love for one individual which excludes the love for others is not love, love for one’s country which is not part of one’s love for humanity is not love, but idolatrous worship.

A hero is an ordinary individual who finds the strength to persevere and endure in spite of overwhelming obstacles.

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

The individual has always to struggle to keep from being overwhelmed by the tribe.

The United States of America took a giant step toward a totalitarian socialist government when the Supreme Court voted to uphold Obamacare, allowing the individual mandate for the government to force American citizens to buy health insurance whether they want to or not.

Nobody owes anybody anything; it’s up to each individual to set high standards for himself or herself, and to set about working hard and creating a solid future.

The free exploring mind of the individual human is the most valuable thing in the world.

Markets are designed to allow individuals to look after their private needs and to pursue profit. It’s really a great invention, and I wouldn’t underestimate the value of that. But they’re not designed to take care of social needs.

It will soon be possible to transmit wireless messages around the world so simply that any individual can carry and operate his own apparatus.

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

Two things are necessary, the development of individuality and the participation of the individual in a truly social life.

Anarchism, to me, means not only the denial of authority, not only a new economy, but a revision of the principles of morality. It means the development of the individual as well as the assertion of the individual. It means self-responsibility, and not leader worship.

We know that equality of individual ability has never existed and never will, but we do insist that equality of opportunity still must be sought.

Growth occurs when individuals confront problems, struggle to master them, and through that struggle develop new aspects of their skills, capacities, views about life.

In each individual the spirit is made flesh, in each one the whole of creation suffers, in each one a Savior is crucified.

We believe that an individual must endeavor to assume the universalism inherent in the human condition.

There is always a very delicate interplay between individual actions and institutional conditions.

I care far more how humanity lives than how long. Progress, for me, means increasing goodness and happiness of individual lives. For the species, as for each man, mere longevity seems to me a contemptible ideal.

Super PACs and a corrupt campaign finance system are destroying American democracy. We’re proud that we have received four million individual contributions, more than any candidate in American history at this point.

In proportion as the mass of citizens who possess political rights increases, and the number of elected ruler’s increases, the actual power is concentrated and becomes the monopoly of a smaller and smaller group of individuals.

The individual is losing significance; his destiny is no longer what interests us.

I hold that any religion that satisfies the individual urge is valid for that person.

Listen to all the conversations of our world, between nations as well as between individuals. They are, for the most part, dialogues of the deaf.

What is society but an individual? [] The ocean is not society; it is individuals. This was how I managed to gain a modicum of freedom from my terror at the illusion of the ocean called the world.

See God in everyone. It is deception to teach by individual differences and karma.

Empowerment of individuals and communities is absolutely central. Getting the community involved in organising their own destiny has got to be a key part of it.

Good-looking individuals are treated better than homely ones in virtually every social situation, from dating to trial by jury.

Most individuals work much harder to hang on to what they have than to take the necessary risk to shoot for their dreams.

You come to love not by discovering the ideal individual, yet by figuring out how to see a blemished individual flawlessly.

In the end, it is upon the quality and commitment of individuals that all group movements depend.

The Constitution was written to protect individual freedom and limit the ability of the government to encroach upon it. The liberals don’t like that. The Democrats are very unhappy. The Constitution limits government too much. So they want to rewrite it, have a second Bill of Rights. So they want a new Bill of Rights that spells out what government can do instead of a Bill of Rights that tells government what it can’t do.

Nothing is more powerful than an individual acting out their conscience, thus helping bring the collective conscience to life.