Individual Quotes - page 2

I must admit that I personally measure success in terms of the contributions an individual makes to her or his fellow human beings. (Margaret Mead)
When an individual is protesting society's refusal to acknowledge his dignity as a human being, his very act of protest confers dignity on him. View quote
Bayard Rustin
Majority rule will only work if you're considering individual rights. You can't have five wolves and one sheep vote on what they want to have for supper. View quote
Larry Flynt
People may flatter themselves just as much by thinking that their faults are always present to other people's minds, as if they believe that the world is always contemplating their individual charms and virtues. View quote
Elizabeth Gaskell
Words like "freedom," "justice," "democracy" are not common concepts; on the contrary, they are rare. People are not born knowing what these are. It takes enormous and, above all, individual effort to arrive at the respect for other people that these words imply. View quote
James Baldwin
The liberty of man consists solely in this, that he obeys the laws of nature because he has himself recognized them as such, and not because they have been imposed upon him externally by any foreign will whatsoever, human or divine, collective or individual. View quote
Mikhail Bakunin
The village is a place that is trying to destroy the individual by every means possible; trying to break his spirit, so that he accepts that he is Number Six and will live there happily as Number Six for ever after. And this is the one rebel that they can't break. View quote
Patrick McGoohan
If you could say of any one individual that the court as an institution is the length and shadow of that individual, surely it would be John Marshall. View quote
William Rehnquist
Groups are grammatical fictions; only individuals exist, and each individual is different. View quote
Robert Anton Wilson
Few things can help an individual more than to place responsibility on him, and to let him know that you trust him. View quote
Booker T. Washington
Character, in the long run, is the decisive factor in the life of an individual and of nations alike. (Theodore Roosevelt)
I describe not men, but manners; not an individual, but a species. View quote
Henry Fielding
Individual science fiction stories may seem as trivial as ever to the blinder critics and philosophers of today - but the core of science fiction, its essence has become crucial to our salvation if we are to be saved at all. View quote
Isaac Asimov
A man lives not only his personal life, as an individual, but also, consciously or unconsciously, the life of his epoch and his contemporaries. View quote
Thomas Mann
It is the lone worker who makes the first advance in a subject; the details may be worked out by a team, but the prime idea is due to enterprise, thought, and perception of an individual. View quote
Alexander Fleming
I'm not the kind of person who tries to be cool or trendy, I'm definitely an individual. View quote
Leonardo DiCaprio
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. View quote
Bruce Fairchild Barton
I doubt if a single individual could be found from the whole of mankind free from some form of insanity. The only difference is one of degree. A man who sees a gourd and takes it for his wife is called insane because this happens to very few people. View quote
Desiderius Erasmus
Democracy is a pathetic belief in the collective wisdom of individual ignorance. View quote
H. L. Mencken
The journalistic vision sharpens to the point of maximum impact every event, every individual and social configuration; but the honing is uniform. View quote
George Steiner
Absolute liberty is absence of restraint; responsibility is restraint; therefore, the ideally free individual is responsible to himself. (Henry Adams)
The only way that has ever been discovered to have a lot of people cooperate together voluntarily is through the free market. And that's why it's so essential to preserving individual freedom. View quote
Milton Friedman
Keep in mind that the true measure of an individual is how he treats a person who can do him absolutely no good. View quote
Ann Landers
God enters a private door into every individual. View quote
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Teamwork is what the Green Bay Packers were all about. They didn't do it for individual glory. They did it because they loved one another. View quote
Vince Lombardi