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Quotes About Individual

Tyranny is most violent where individual beliefs, which are an inalienable right, are regarded as criminal.
~ Baruch Spinoza
The] right of the individual is co-extensive with its determinate power. ... Nature's bounds are not set by the laws of human reason which aim only at man's true interest and his preservation ... man is but a particle.
~ Baruch Spinoza
Everyone is the defender of his own freedom.
~ Baruch Spinoza
We there showed that the idea of body and body, that is, mind and body (II. xiii.), are one and the same individual conceived now under the attribute of thought, now under the attribute of extension; wherefore the idea of the mind and the mind itself are one and the same thing, which is conceived under one and the same attribute, namely, thought.
~ Baruch Spinoza
When an individual is protesting society's refusal to acknowledge his dignity as a human being, his very act of protest confers dignity on him.
~ Bayard Rustin
Faith is personal if it's to be real.
~ Bear Grylls
I'm really excited about what the future holds and to grow as an individual and as an artist.
~ Khalid
I'm a reasonably articulate individual.
~ Amanda Marshall
Everybody in America is going to have to sacrifice to help us rebuild the Gulf Coast. Every government program, every individual, we are all going to have to sacrifice.
~ Tom Coburn
I am the only one in my family to graduate college. It was a proud moment for me to receive a degree.
~ Nadine Velazquez
I love compliments; of course I do. Everybody wants to receive compliments. But the team is the important thing, and I'd rather win things as a team than finish up with individual honours.
~ David Silva
I am certainly not arguing for the de facto autonomy of the individual work, even though there is much to be said for making the attempt to see it in that light as one facet of the reception process.
~ Brian Ferneyhough
The rules or 'laws' of poetry are only tentative devices, an approximate scheme. There is no Sinaitic recipe for poetry, for the individual poem is the norm.
~ Louis MacNeice
When you give a homemade gift, you are giving a part of yourself to the recipient. You can't do that with a mass-produced item.
~ Mark Frauenfelder
If we win the Champions League, everyone is a better, more recognised player, but if you win an individual award and nothing with your team, it means nothing.
~ Fernando Torres
What must occur is a greater recognition by investors of their individual responsibility.
~ Arthur Levitt
I actually think every individual is now an entrepreneur, whether they recognize it or not.
~ Reid Hoffman
These zealots for disarming individual Americans choose not to recognize the basic notion that defines American freedom: the difference between a good guy with a gun and a bad guy with a gun.
~ Wayne LaPierre
I know everyone has a different taste as far as personal technology - like, smartphones are maybe the most personal decision you can make - so I don't know if I can recommend one thing for everyone. But, I do like the idea of everyone moving, eventually, to an electric car.
~ Marques Brownlee
I recorded that because it happened to me. I wasn't making a point.
~ Robert Mapplethorpe
The poet complains or points out the discontent that lies at the heart of man, the individual man, and how can that be redeemed?
~ Derek Walcott
Dealers always like to sell chairs in sets of four, six, or eight. And they charge a premium for supplying the whole set. Individual chairs, though, go for much lower prices, and if you carry around a reference photo of the chairs you want, you may be able to build up a cut-price collection, chair by chair.
~ Judith Miller
My family, in a way, gives me a reference as to who I am as an individual, and my work gives me a reference as to who I am as a Homo sapiens. I think that's a very perfect match, in my view.
~ Zeresenay Alemseged
I have a hard time with abstractions. I always go to the personal.
~ Janet Fitch