Individual Quotes - page 4

There is one expanding horror in American life. It is that our long odyssey toward liberty, democracy and freedom-for-all may be achieved in such a way that utopia remains forever closed, and we live in freedom and hell, debased of style, not individual from one another, void of courage, our fear rationalized away. (Norman Mailer)
The individual cannot bargain with the State. The State recognizes no coinage but power: and it issues the coins itself. View quote
Ursula K. Le Guin
Every individual matters. Every individual has a role to play. Every individual makes a difference. View quote
Jane Goodall
Income No. 3 must be defined as the maximum amount of money which the individual can spend this week, and still be able to spend the same amount in real terms in each ensuing week. View quote
John Hicks
The very general occurrence of the homosexual in ancient Greece, and its wide occurrence today in some cultures in which such activity is not taboo suggests that the capacity of an individual to respond erotically to any sort of stimulus, whether it is provided by another person of the same or opposite sex, is basic in the species. View quote
Alfred Kinsey
It cannot be too frequently emphasized that the behavior of any animal must depend upon on the nature of the stimulus which it meets, its anatomic and physiologic capacities, and its background of previous experience. Unless it has been conditioned by previous experience, an animal should respond identically to identical stimuli, whether they emanate from some part of its own body, from another individual of the same sex, or from an individual of the opposite sex. View quote
Alfred Kinsey
Indian religion has always felt that since the minds, the temperaments and the intellectual affinities of men are unlimited in their variety, a perfect liberty of thought and of worship must be allowed to the individual in his approach to the Infinite. View quote
Sri Aurobindo
Literacy, the visual technology, dissolved the tribal magic by means of its stress on fragmentation and specialization and created the individual. View quote
Marshall McLuhan
How could the USA champion individual freedom in the world generally while denying it to an important minority in its own country. View quote
Dean Acheson
The freedom of each individual can only be the freedom of all. View quote
Friedrich Dürrenmatt
In each individual the spirit is made flesh, in each one the whole of creation suffers, in each one a Savior is crucified. (Hermann Hesse)
Everybody's journey is individual. If you fall in love with a boy, you fall in love with a boy. The fact that many Americans consider it a disease says more about them than it does about homosexuality. View quote
James Baldwin
Even the most wretched individual of our present society could not exist and develop without the cumulative social efforts of countless generations. View quote
Mikhail Bakunin
The level of shyness has gone up dramatically in the last decade. I think shyness is an index of social pathology rather than a pathology of the individual. View quote
Philip Zimbardo
The fantastic advances in the field of electronic communication constitute a greater danger to the privacy of the individual. View quote
Earl Warren
There are two great rules of life the one general and the other particular. The first is that everyone can, in the end, get what he wants, if he only tries. That is the general rule. The particular rule is that every individual is, more or less, an exception to the rule. View quote
Samuel Butler (novelist)
While democracy must have its organizations and controls, its vital breath is individual liberty. View quote
Charles Evans Hughes
I could prove God statistically. Take the human body alone - the chances that all the functions of an individual would just happen is a statistical monstrosity. View quote
George Gallup
Nixon was the most dishonest individual I have ever met in my life. He lied to his wife, his family, his friends, his colleagues in the Congress, lifetime members of his own political party, the American people and the world. View quote
Barry Goldwater
The only real revolution is in the enlightenment of the mind and the improvement of character, the only real emancipation is individual, and the only real revolutionaries are philosophers and saints. View quote
Will Durant
The individual has always had to struggle to keep from being overwhelmed by the tribe. To be your own man is a hard business. If you try it, you'll be lonely often, and sometimes frightened. But no price is too high to pay for the privilege of owning yourself. (Rudyard Kipling)
Comrades We must abolish the cult of the individual decisively, once and for all. View quote
Nikita Khrushchev
Next to the right of liberty, the right of property is the most important individual right guaranteed by the Constitution and the one which, united with that of personal liberty, has contributed more to the growth of civilization than any other institution established by the human race. View quote
William Howard Taft
Nobody, who has not been in the interior of a family, can say what the difficulties of any individual of that family may be. View quote
Jane Austen
Talent is cheaper than table salt. What separates the talented individual from the successful one is a lot of hard work. View quote
Stephen King