Individual Quotes - page 3

Every individual has a place to fill in the world and is important in some respect whether he chooses to be so or not. (Nathaniel Hawthorne)
The behavior of an individual is determined not by his racial affiliation, but by the character of his ancestry and his cultural environment.
Franz Boas
Creativity is a type of learning process where the teacher and pupil are located in the same individual.
Arthur Koestler
The liberty of the individual is no gift of civilization. It was greatest before there was any civilization.
Sigmund Freud
Without realizing it, the individual composes his life according to the laws of beauty even in times of greatest distress.
Milan Kundera
Morality is the herd-instinct in the individual.
Friedrich Nietzsche
I do not believe in the immortality of the individual, and I consider ethics to be an exclusively human concern without any superhuman authority behind it.
Albert Einstein
The World Trade Center is a living symbol of man's dedication to world peace... a representation of man's belief in humanity, his need for individual dignity, his beliefs in the cooperation of men, and, through cooperation, his ability to find greatness.
Minoru Yamasaki
As corollaries to the right of every individual to life and to full participation in society, the Declaration incorporated in the list of human rights the right to work and a certain number of economic, social, and cultural rights.
Rene Cassin
Every individual who eats flesh food, whether an animal is killed expressly for him or not, is supporting the trade of slaughtering and contributing to the violent deaths of harmless animals.
Philip Kapleau
When we say that the persistence of competition is ensured by fate, we mean that individual freedom is so guaranteed. The one thing to which fate binds us is liberty. (John Bates Clark)
If the attainment of peace is the ultimate objective of all statesmen, it is, at the same time, something very ordinary, closely tied to the daily life of each individual.
Eisaku Sato
The growth of modern constitutional government compels for its successful practice the exercise of reason and considerate judgment by the individual citizens who constitute the electorate.
Elihu Root
Without peace, there is no freedom, individual or national. War and hostilities are a form of slavery.
Klas Pontus Arnoldson
Every theory of love, from Plato down teaches that each individual loves in the other sex what he lacks in himself.
G. Stanley Hall
There has to be this pioneer, the individual who has the courage, the ambition to overcome the obstacles that always develop when one tries to do something worth while, especially when it is new and different.
Alfred P. Sloan
In a sane society no woman would be left to struggle on her own with the huge transformation that is motherhood, when a single individual finds herself joined by an invisible umbilical cord to another person from whom she will never be separated, even by death.
Germaine Greer
What is repugnant to every human being is to be reckoned always as a member of a class and not as an individual person.
Dorothy L. Sayers
Of the various executive abilities, no one excited more anxious concern than that of placing the interests of our fellow-citizens in the hands of honest men, with understanding sufficient for their stations. No duty is at the same time more difficult to fulfil. The knowledge of character possessed by a single individual is of necessity limited. To seek out the best through the whole Union, we must resort to the information which from the best of men, acting disinterestedly and with the purest motives, is sometimes incorrect.
Thomas Jefferson
My thesis is that morality exists outside the human mind in the sense of being not just a trait of individual humans, but a human trait; that is, a human universal.
Michael Shermer
So you see, Good and Evil have the same face; it all depends on when they cross the path of each individual human being. (Paulo Coelho)
My own experience and development deepen everyday my conviction that our moral progress may be measured by the degree in which we sympathize with individual suffering and individual joy.
George Eliot
The more the state "plans" the more difficult planning becomes for the individual.
Friedrich Hayek
I am attracted to people who make this effort in knowing what suits them - they are individual and stylish.
Vivienne Westwood
No emotion, any more than a wave, can long retain its own individual form.
Henry Ward Beecher