Quotes About Individual

There is certainly no absolute standard of beauty. That precisely is what makes its pursuit so interesting.

The individual serves the industrial system not by supplying it with savings and the resulting capital; he serves it by consuming its products.

The salary of the chief executive of a large corporation is not a market award for achievement. It is frequently in the nature of a warm personal gesture by the individual to himself.

Everyone has a moment in history which belongs particularly to him.

He thought that he was a human being with rights, when in fact he was just another animal in the zoo.

Every man has a property in his own person. This nobody has a right to, but himself.

E]veryone is orthodox to himself…

Every man has a property in his person, This nobody has a right to, but himself.

Por ser cada hombre, según se mostró, naturalmente libre, sin que nada alcance a ponerle en sujeción, bajo ningún poder de la tierra, como no sea su propio consentimiento

Le leggi non vegliano sulla verità delle opinioni ma sulla sicurezza e l'integrità di ciascuno e dello Stato.

Freedom, then, is not what sir Robert Filmer tells us, O.A. 55, " a liberty for every one to do what he lists, to live as he pleases, and not to be tied by any laws :" but freedom of men under government is, to have a standing rule to live by, common to every one of the society

for a man, not having the power of his own life, cannot, by compact, or his own consent, enslave himself to any one

For all its newness, we can understand the Reformation as a Renaissance phenomenon. It is antiquarian in the sense that it returns ad fontes, to the Scriptures and the older church fathers, particularly Augustine, bypassing much, but not all, of medieval scholasticism. It is humanistic in that it is concerned in a fresh way with the individual's relation to God.

Your personality style is your own, utterly individual amalgam of fourteen separate, identifiable styles.

The commonest virtues of the individual are often lacking in the spokesmen of nations; a statesman representing not himself but his country may prove, without incurring excessive blame—­as history often records—­vindictive, perfidious, and egotistic.

Tennis really is single combat, and it's exhausting to be a gladiator.

The growth of modern constitutional government compels for its successful practice the exercise of reason and considerate judgment by the individual citizens who constitute the electorate.

You can turn off sex, and you can turn off romantic love-but it's really hard to turn off all the human emotional responses to a powerful individual without also turning off your humanity.

Nothing strengthens the judgment and quickens the conscience like individual responsibility.

self-development is a higher duty than self-sacrifice.

Remember your Plato, Maeve. 'If a man, fixing his attention on these and the like difficulties, does away with the idea of things and will not admit that every individual thing has its own determinate idea which is always one and the same, he will have nothing on which his mind can rest; and so he will utterly destroy his reasoning…

The function of the educator is to discover in each individual child the gifts implanted in her by Almighty God and to develop and dedicate them to His service.

What matters, therefore, is not the meaning of life in general, but rather the specific meaning of a person's life at a given moment." At

Our bodies are to be celebrated, despite our individual limitations.