Individuals Quotes

I'd like to see the government get out of war altogether and leave the whole field to private individuals.

For solving a surprisingly large and varied number of problems, crowds are smarter than individuals.

So long as governments set the example of killing their enemies, private individuals will occasionally kill theirs.

There is a group of individuals who are radical jihadists. We need to call them by name. They believe it is OK to kill people in the name of their religion. It is not all of Islam. It is not all Muslims. But there is a subgroup who believe it is OK. In fact, it is their plan and design to kill people.

Society exists only as a mental concept; in the real world there are only individuals.

Formation of a new race takes place when, over several generations, individuals in one group reproduce more frequently among themselves than they do with individuals in other groups.

What we can do as individuals may not be very much on the global scale, but we have to start the change by living as we are teaching.

All of civility depends on being able to contain the rage of individuals.

Academic sociologists have been trained to conceive of their discipline - sociology - as the scientific study of society, and to remit to the sister discipline of psychology the study of individuals.

There will be no lasting peace either in the heart of individuals or in social customs until death is outlawed.

One of the most powerful tools for empowering individuals and communities is making certain that any individual who wants to receive a quality education can do so.

I concentrate on the lives of individuals whom the reader comes to know and feel with intimately.

Individuals have little opportunity to get elected to Parliament under the label of the government party... unless they are in good standing with the Prime Minister and pledged to be cooperative.

The Nobel awards should be regarded as giving recognition to this general scientific progress as well as to the individuals involved.

Let individuals create real wealth, empower them, create something that they can leave for their children.

The same practice was continued every evening through the whole course, and with the same success. Many individuals expressed their gratification at having discovered such simple means of relieving the tedium of a long discourse.

A man has as many social selves as there are individuals who recognize him.

For humble individuals like myself, there is one poor comfort, which is this, viz. that gout, unlike any other disease, kills more rich men than poor, more wise men than simple.

I am excited to work with NBC News to continue to highlight stories of organizations and individuals who make their communities and our world healthier, more just and more humane.

In terms of individuals who actually inspired me, very few of the academic people that I had access to had that power over me. Maybe it's simply because I wasn't that committed to geometry.

When a system of oppression has become institutionalized it is unnecessary for individuals to be oppressive.

The worth of a civilization or a culture is not valued in the terms of its material wealth or military power, but by the quality and achievements of its representative individuals - its philosophers, its poets and its artists.

Human progress is neither automatic nor inevitable... Every step toward the goal of justice requires sacrifice, suffering, and struggle; the tireless exertions and passionate concern of dedicated individuals.

Most of us really aren't horribly unique. There are 6 billion of us. Put 'em all in one room and very few would stand out as individuals. So maybe we ought to think of worth in terms of our ability to get along as a part of nature, rather than being the lords over nature.

But I have always - ever since The Accidental Woman - written novels about individuals attempting to make choices in the context of situations over which they have no control.

Humanity is made up of an infinity of different individuals. Each of us travels for motives exclusively his own.

In junior high school, I was an object of pure ridicule for my dress, withdrawal, and asocial manner. Dozens of times, I saw individuals laugh and smile more in ten to fifteen minutes than I did in all my life up to then.

The credit of advancing science has always been due to individuals and never to the age.

It is obvious that different individuals require different things to live good, healthy, and virtuous lives.

Since the September 11 attacks, nearly 400 individuals have been arrested by the Justice Department as a result of ongoing investigations into international terrorism. Of that total, over half were convicted as a result of their actions.