Individual Quotes

It's a hard thing to legislate. You can't legislate good taste and you can't put a number on it in terms of square footage,... It's a question of where individual rights end and community rights begin.

A surprising number of government committees will make important decisions on fundamental matters with less attention than each individual would give to buying a suit.

Unless you hit your television with a sledgehammer, you're not going to be able to be an individual.

Rahm Emanuel is son of the devil's spawn. He is an individual who would sell his mother to get a vote. He would strap his children to the front end of a steam locomotive.

I am not reggae, I am me. I am bigger than the limits that are put on me. It all has to do with the individual journey.

In the first period religious life appears as a form of discipline which the individual or a whole people must accept as an unconditional command without any rational understanding of the ultimate meaning and purpose of that command.

Perhaps the surest test of an individual's integrity is his refusal to do or say anything that would damage his self-respect.

It takes no compromising to give people their rights. It takes no money to respect the individual. It takes no survey to remove repressions.

A dialogue among civilizations can be seen as a dialogue between the individual and the universal.

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.

Know what happens when an individual declares bankruptcy and how it affects his or her life.

God enters by a private door into every individual.

Poetry is the work of poets, not of peoples or communities; artistic creation can never be anything but the production of an individual mind.

Households, cities, countries, and nations have enjoyed great happiness when a single individual has taken heed of the Good and Beautiful. Such people not only liberate themselves; they fill those they meet with a free mind.

I always received much more satisfaction as a defense attorney in obtaining an acquittal for a client than I ever have as a D.A. in obtaining a conviction. All my interests and sympathies tend to be on the side of the individual as opposed to the state.

This election presents a stark choice - we can continue down the road of the Obama Democrats, more and more spending, debt and government control of the economy, or we can return to the founding principles of our nation - free markets, fiscal responsibility and individual liberty.

Well, I have also believed in empowering the individual and believe there is a degree of inertia in big government that hampers the ability to respond to a rapidly evolving crisis.

The achiever is the only individual who is truly alive.

Dreams from 1991 are becoming reality. We will build good relations between nations and people. We will strive towards mutual respect and equality of every individual, sex, race and national or any other minority.

I just think that it's maybe fashionable today to try to take individual actions and individual failures and take the broadest possible brush and try to paint a company.

It would be against all nature for all the Negroes to be either at the bottom, top, or in between. We will go where the internal drive carries us like everybody else. It is up to the individual.

I'm not trying to win individual awards.

It is the individual who knows how little they know about themselves who stands the most reasonable chance of finding out something about themselves before they die.

I think a lot of people have lost respect for the individual, you know, the individual, the person who doesn't conform.

We must stop thinking of the individual and start thinking about what is best for society.

Society cares for the individual only so far as he is profitable.

I think we will always have the impulse towards visual poetry with us, and I wouldn't agree with Bly that it's a bad thing. It depends on the ability of the individual poet to do it well, and to make a shape which is interesting enough to hold your attention.

I do not believe in immortality of the individual, and I consider ethics to be an exclusively human concern with no superhuman authority behind it.

China has to go along with world trends. That's democracy, liberty, individual freedom. China sooner or later has to go that way. It cannot go backward.

From a sequence of these individual patterns, whole buildings with the character of nature will form themselves within your thoughts, as easily as sentences.