Individual Quotes

But the worst handicap we had the prohibition of naming individual units who had done the fighting.

The greatest things are accomplished by individual people, not by committees or companies.

My biggest kick comes from the individual fans I run into. Middle-aged men ask me when we're going to do more Johnny Quest cartoons.

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.

I do not believe in the collective wisdom of individual ignorance.

Whatever my individual desires were to be free, I was not alone. There were many others who felt the same way.

We have a responsibility to ensure that every individual has the opportunity to receive a high-quality education, from prekindergarten to elementary and secondary, to special education, to technical and higher education and beyond.

The proper balance between individual liberty and central authority is a very ancient problem.

We have lost that which has made us great over the generations, and that is the sense of individual and personal responsibility that we can come up, we can pursue our dreams and our aspirations and we won't be blocked by government regulation, by the inability to get a loan as a small business to make our dreams come true.

The journalistic vision sharpens to the point of maximum impact every event, every individual and social configuration; but the honing is uniform.

True, the initial ideas are in general those of an individual, but the establishment of the reality and truth is in general the work of more than one person.

Certainly it is a different world for players nowadays. But it depends on the individual.

Dying before dying has two important consequences: It liberates the individual from the fear of death and influences the actual experience of dying at the time of biological demise.

The whole theory of the universe is directed unerringly to one single individual.

The right of an individual to conduct intimate relationships in the intimacy of his or her own home seems to me to be the heart of the Constitution's protection of privacy.

Respect for the fragility and importance of an individual life is still the mark of an educated man.

The worst thing that can happen in a democracy - as well as in an individual's life - is to become cynical about the future and lose hope.

Even the most wretched individual of our present society could not exist and develop without the cumulative social efforts of countless generations.

It takes me three or four years to research and write each book and the individual stories stay with you for a long time afterwards.

What matters in literature in the end is surely the idiosyncratic, the individual, the flavor or the color of a particular human suffering.

The greatest enemy of individual freedom is the individual himself.

Are we to say that any individual who's on steroids that has an angry moment is due to steroids? What about the individual who gets angry and kills someone who's not on steroids? What do we blame it on now?

It is vain to talk of the interest of the community, without understanding what is the interest of the individual.

The old man, of whom we know how he has become what he is, is more of an individual than the young man; for it is only in the course of an eventful life that men are differentiated into full individuality.

I think it's an individual thing. Your mountains are my molehills.

The ultimate goal of the educational system is to shift to the individual the burden of pursing his own education. This will not be a widely shared pursuit until we get over our odd conviction that education is what goes on in school buildings and nowhere else.

The state calls its own violence law, but that of the individual crime.

Well concerning the world records that I did, I think it helps a lot to me, yeah. I think it's a very individual thing because I heard some people say, like, oh I don't like it at all. But I definitely, for me it really made a big difference.

It was Nietzsche who first made us conscious of the significance of the individual as a term in the evolutionary process-in that part of the evolutionary process which has still to take place.

Most of the books that I've written have been focused on, sort of, the individual, and sort of, either a voice, a personal voice, or a kind of transforming event where they step forward to fight for something they value.