Quotes About Individual

We should not be assuming anything for anyone else's gender, because gender is defined by the individual.

Individual stories from the Bible had been made into movies, but no one had taken on the arc of the Bible story as one meta-narrative from Genesis to Revelation.

In truth, we are the only developed country on earth with a constitution that recognizes the God-given right to keep and bear arms, and the human right of individual armed defense of self, family, home and country.

Our culture has created two almost irreconcilable descriptions of a 'good woman.' The first is the individual achiever; the second, the self-sacrificing domestic goddess.

I'm not the most charismatic, maybe emotional, fun-packed individual on the golf course; I get that.

I'm probably the only bottom-heavy golfer in the country.

I think a good story's a good story and a good character's a good character.

It really is individual for everyone, but for me, theater is where I learn and grow, and that is always a good thing.

natural right of the individual to personal freedom overrode man-made laws.

Life, liberty, and property do not exist because men have made laws. On the contrary, it was the fact that life, liberty, and property existed beforehand that caused men to make laws in the first place.

Each of us has a natural right, from God, to defend his person, his liberty, and his property.

He who has attained the freedom of reason to any extent cannot, for a long time, regard himself otherwise than as a wanderer on the face of the earth - and not even as a traveler towards a final goal, for there is no such thing. But he certainly wants to observe and keep his eyes open to whatever actually happens in the world; therefore he cannot attach his heart too firmly to anything individual; he must have in himself something wandering that takes pleasure in change and transitoriness.

Morality is the herd-instinct in the individual.

Those moralists, on the other hand, who, following in the footsteps of Socrates, offer the individual a morality of self-control and temperance as a means to his own advantage, as his personal key to happiness, are the exceptions.

A virtue must be our invention; it must spring out of our personal need and defence.

To make an individual uncomfortable, that is my task.

Each individual represents the whole course of Evolution and he is not, as morals teach, something that begins at his birth.

The individual has always had to struggle to keep from being overwhelmed by the tribe.

Modern Socialism wants to create a secular version of Jesuitism: everybody a perfect instrument. But the purpose remains to be discovered. What is it all for!

In the philosopher, on the contrary, there is absolutely nothing impersonal; and above all, his morality furnishes a decided and decisive testimony as to WHO HE IS,—that is to say, in what order the deepest impulses of his nature stand to each other.

The essential element in the black art of obscurantism is not that it wants to darken individual understanding, but that it wants to blacken our picture of the world, and darken our idea of existence.

The poison by which the weaker nature is destroyed is strengthening to the strong individual-and he does not call it poison.

The better the state is established, the fainter is humanity. To make the individual uncomfortable, that is my task.

The intellect, as a means for the preservation of the individual, unfolds its chief powers in simulation; for this is the means by which the weaker, less robust individuals preserve themselves, since they are denied the chance of waging the struggle for existence with horns or the fangs of beasts of prey.