Individual Quotes

The Constitution was the expression not only of a political faith, but also of political fears. It was wrought both as the organ of the national interest and as the bulwark of certain individual and local rights.

The institutional investor remains the bigger influence on individual trades simply because the institutional investor has more money to support the order and that will have more of an impact on the stock.

In the last analysis, the individual person is responsible for living his own life and for "finding himself." If he persists in shifting his responsibility to somebody else, he fails to find out the meaning of his own existence.

To walk behind others on a road you are traveling together, to give precedence to others without envy - this is painful for an individual and painful for a nation.

Individual freedom is a Jewish idea, but it's one of the functions of Christianity to make this idea universal.

A woman may have a witty tongue or a stinging pen but she will never laugh at her own individual shortcomings.

I'm a reasonably articulate individual.

The freedom of each individual can only be the freedom of all.

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.

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.

Punishment is now unfashionable... because it creates moral distinctions among men, which, to the democratic mind, are odious. We prefer a meaningless collective guilt to a meaningful individual responsibility.

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?