Quotes About Individual

Sitting there I had a vision of the world with nations, systems, economic blocks, hardening and consolidating; a world where it would become increasingly ludicrous even to talk about freedom, or the individual conscience.

We have normality. I repeat, we have normality. Anything you still can't cope with is therefore your own problem.

He seemed more like a succession of extraordinary events than a person.

He's just this guy, you know?

What I carried away in the end was a determination to heal-insofar as an individual woman can, and as much as possible with other women--the separation between mind and body; never again to lose myself both psychically and physically in that way

The simplest thing one can say about the experiential knowledge of awakening is that it is a shift in one's perception . This is the heart of awakening. There is a shift in perception from seeing oneself as an isolated individual to seeing oneself, if we have a sense of self at all after this shift, as something mush more universal—everything and everyone and everywhere at the same time.

The illusion that freedom is the prerogative of one's own particular race is fairly widespread. Dr Gerard was wiser. He knew that no race, no country and no individual could be described as free. But he also knew that there were different degrees of bondage.

I'm not the head of Scotland Yard," said Mrs. Oliver, retreating from dangerous ground. "I'm a private individual -" "Oh, you're not that," said Rhoda, confusedly complimentary.

Poirot did not enter into a controversy. He had already learnt that every single individual had a different version of the theme "What did we fight the war for?

Yet he had a certain charm of manner, and I fancied that, if one really knew him well, one could have a deep affection for him.

Fiecare om are un motiv personal ca s? moar?.

The pessimist is seldom an agitating individual. His creed breeds indifference to others, and he does not trouble himself to thrust his views upon the unconvinced.

In love the individual goes beyond himself, beyond the narcissistic. In sex, you are really in a relationship with yourself via the mediation of the other. The other helps you to discover the reality of pleasure. In love, on the contrary, the mediation of the other is enough in itself.

Two deeply emotionally wounded people cannot form a healthy relationship. They may struggle, compromise, and even stay together, but until they each heal their own wounds, the relationship will always be a struggle.

government regulation cannot substitute for individual integrity.

We) are never able to seek for the good or exercise the virtues only qua individual ... we all approach our own circumstances as bearers of a particular social identity. I am someone's son or daughter, a citizen of this or that city. I belong to this clan, that tribe, this nation. ... I inherit from the past of my family, my city, my tribe, my nation, a variety of debts, inheritances, expectations and obligations.

The concept of a person is that of a character abstracted from a history.

The individual carries his communal roles with him as part of the definition of his self, even into his isolation.

The individual' is the name of a piece of social fabrication, of a social role created in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries in order to abstract human beings from certain aspects of their beliefs and circumstances.

I got a different persona than a lot of these other guys.

I think biography can be more personal than fiction, and certainly can be more expressive.

Faith is personal if it's to be real.

Your own personal health is your own personal choice, all the way down the line.

If I had my way, no one would ever be separated from his or her family over a personal choice that involved only his or her body.