Individual Quotes

I do not believe in the collective wisdom of individual ignorance. (Thomas Carlyle)
Man, the living creature, the creating individual, is always more important than any established style or system. View quote
Bruce Lee
Corporation: An ingenious device for obtaining profit without individual responsibility. View quote
Ambrose Bierce
There is no such thing as society: there are individual men and women, and there are families. View quote
Margaret Thatcher
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. View quote
Billy Wilder
The individual who refuses to defend his rights when called by his government deserves to be a slave, and must be punished as an enemy of his country and a friend to her foe. View quote
Andrew Jackson
It is more noble to give yourself completely to one individual than to labor diligently for the salvation of the masses. View quote
Dag Hammarskjöld
Injustice, poverty, slavery, ignorance - these may be cured by reform or revolution. But men do not live only by fighting evils. They live by positive goals, individual and collective, a vast variety of them, seldom predictable, at times incompatible. View quote
Isaiah Berlin
Society attacks early, when the individual is helpless. View quote
B. F. Skinner
Liberty, as it is conceived by current opinion, has nothing inherent about it; it is a sort of gift or trust bestowed on the individual by the state pending good behavior. View quote
Mary McCarthy
Marvelous is the power which can be exercised, almost unconsciously, over a company, or an individual, or even upon a crowd by one person gifted with good temper, good digestion, good intellects, and good looks. (Anthony Trollope)
A work of art has no importance whatever to society. It is only important to the individual. View quote
Vladimir Nabokov
There is no reason for any individual to have a computer in his home. View quote
Ken Olsen
True individual freedom cannot exist without economic security and independence. People who are hungry and out of a job are the stuff of which dictatorships are made. View quote
Franklin D. Roosevelt
An individual who breaks a law that conscience tells him is unjust, and who willingly accepts the penalty of imprisonment in order to arouse the conscience of the community over its injustice, is in reality expressing the highest respect for the law. View quote
Martin Luther King Jr.
Basically, I viewed any work of art as an imposition of another person's taste, and saw the individual making this imposition as a kind of dictator. View quote
Henry Flynt
We must reject the idea that every time a law's broken, society is guilty rather than the lawbreaker. It is time to restore the American precept that each individual is accountable for his actions. View quote
Ronald Reagan
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. View quote
M. Scott Peck
Genius is essentially creative; it bears the stamp of the individual who possesses it. View quote
Anne Louise Germaine de Staël
The smallest minority on earth is the individual. Those who deny individual rights cannot claim to be defenders of minorities. View quote
Ayn Rand
Individual rights are the means of subordinating society to moral law. (Ayn Rand)
Consider any individual at any period of his life, and you will always find him preoccupied with fresh plans to increase his comfort. View quote
Alexis de Tocqueville
Education has in America's whole history been the major hope for improving the individual and society. View quote
Gunnar Myrdal
One must love humanity in order to reach out into the unique essence of each individual: no one can be too low or too ugly. View quote
Georg Büchner
I think a hero is an ordinary individual who finds strength to persevere and endure in spite of overwhelming obstacles. View quote
Christopher Reeve