Quotes About Individual

When I started to write, I realised that you need a bit of both: the overall context as well as the individual's experience.

Racism doesn't affect me. I've realised now that racism is down to the person doing it. It doesn't affect my life.

We are all driven by our personal realities. Otherwise you are a saint or someone who has dedicated their lives to activism.

I guess my view is I believe less governance is best governance and that government should not do what the free enterprise and private enterprise and indidividual entrepreneurship and the states can do.

There is only one governor, and his name is Gray Davis.

That is the great thing about Impact - they care about each individual talent and everything that we put out on TV has a lot of thought and time put into it.

The reason is that in a group, individual errors on either side of the true figure cancel each other out.

I would not give half a guinea to live under one form of government other than another. It is of no moment to the happiness of an individual.

I don't know anybody that doesn't own a gun.

I take gun rights very personally.

I'm for limited government, so stay out of my guns, and you can stay out of my body as well.

They aren't going to take my guns. I have 44 guns, and they aren't going to take my guns.

I think everyone should own six guns, even though I don't own any.

There are a lot of bands that have a huge appeal, but I don't understand why. Guns n' Roses. U2. But you know, that's just my thing. Music is pretty personal.

one of the most significant benefits of the LLC, and a key reason for its existence, is the fact that the IRS recognizes it as a pass-through tax entity. All of the profits and losses of the business flow through the LLC without tax. They flow through to the business owner's tax return and are dealt with at the individual level.

A true gift is not payment for services rendered; rather, it is an expression of love for the individual and is freely given by the donor.

We say that a man is as brave as an atrox, or that a woman is as lovely as a red roe, as [she] was. But we lack any such term for loyalty, because nothing we know is truly loyal---or rather, because true loyalty is found only in the individual and not in the type. A son may be loyal to his father or a dog to its master, but most are not...perhaps we are unable to advance some paragon of loyalty to an apothegm only because loyalty (in the final analysis) is choice.

The Precursors taught us that each life is a finite interval, with a beginning and an end. Any individual creature, although a miracle, is not that important in the overall scheme of things. What matters, the Precursors said, is continuity and renewal. In their view each of us is immortal, not because anything related to a specific individual lives forever, but because each life becomes a critical link, either culturally or genetically or both, in the neverending chain of life.

Love's only business is to preserve the race, not the individual.

I saw the Emperor – this world-soul – riding out of the city on reconnaissance. It is indeed a wonderful sensation to see such an individual, who, concentrated here at a single point, astride a horse, reaches out over the world and masters it.

All feeling of shame rests upon isolation of the individual; it arises whenever stress is laid upon the ego , whenever the attention of a circle is drawn to such an individual — in reality or only in his imagination —which at the same time is felt to be in some way incongruous. For that reason retiring and weak natures particularly incline to feelings of shame.

Nietzsche may have seen the relentless struggle of the individual as the prerequisite for his full development, the fundamental motive was at work, namely the resistance of the individual to being leveled, swallowed up in the social-technological mechanism.

The vanity of the contents" of individual experience is scrutable as an inessential trapping drawn into a matter by vested interests "…since it is at the same time the vanity of the self that knows itself to be vain

But if they realize that their true freedom consists in the acceptance of principles, of laws which are the own, a synthesis of universal and particular interests becomes possible.