Quotes About Individual

A professional's racket is such a personal thing, and it's the tool of your trade.

Simply put, when you have very large pieces of software, most of the tools look at the individual lines of code as text. It is often extremely powerful to look not at individual pieces of code but at a system as a whole.

If I were an innocent individual, flown to a foreign country and held for several years and tortured, I'd become a terrorist, too. I'd go to war against the U.S.

It's a presumptuous thing to write one's autobiography, but this is really an effort in the deepest sense to explore the struggle of a tortured individual to be himself in a hostile society.

Today the predatory state, or the predatory group of states, with power of total destruction, is no more to be tolerated than the predatory individual.

Like fundamentalist Judaism and medieval Christianity, Islam is totalist. That is to say, it makes a total claim on the individual.

Totalitarianism is not about some state that appears out of nowhere and suddenly is all-powerful. There can't be any such thing. Totalitarianism starts when the difference between your public life and your private life is effaced.

The specific is not exclusive: it lacks the aspiration to totality.

I think it's totally up to the individual if they'd like a private life or if they'd like to be in the public eye - it's a choice you can make.

At each moment, who we are and how we behave is a choice that we individually make. The challenges are real; the opportunities are incredible.

In quantum mechanics, no matter how many individual pieces make up the system you are thinking about, there is only one wave function . Even if we consider the entire universe and everything inside it, there is still only one wave function, sometimes redundantly known as the "wave function of the universe.

A person is a diminutive, ephemeral thing, standing smaller in comparison with the universe than a single atom stands in comparison with the Earth. Can any one individual existence really matter?

limitations on government to guard against its natural tendency to expand at the expense of individual liberties. They reserved for the states those rights not granted to the federal government and distributed federal power among three separate, coequal branches of government.

the Bill of Rights is a triumphant proclamation of sacred truths upon which freedom depends and a heroic defense of the individual against the majority, subject as it is to demagoguery and deception.

Están pasando por alto el hecho de que el beneficio que le reporta tanto a una nación como a una persona la conquista del mundo entero es mínimo si eso va en perjuicio de su alma y, al mismo tiempo, obvian que no sólo están sacrificándose a sí mismos en favor de su patriotismo (o lo que sea), sino también a su país.

Me di cuenta de que la revolución nazi había surpimido la antigua división entre política y vida privada, y de que era imposible tomárselo como un simple "acontecimiento político". La revolución no solo se produjo en la esfera política, sino también en cada vida privada, actuando como un gas tóxico que penetra a través de todas las paredes.

The most important part of individual life, which cannot be subsumed in communal life, is love. So comradeship has its special weapon against love: smut.

Last Monday a string of amendments were presented to the lower House these altogether respect personal liberty...

The common good and the individual good rarely coincide. Sure, I know it's true. But some truths are probably worse than lies.

The common good and the individual good rarely coincide.

Many years ago someone told me something that I flatly refused to accept. And I still don't accept it now, despite all the times I've seen it proved right. "The common good and the individual good rarely coincide..." Sure, I know, it's true. But some truths are probably worse than lies.

Having come from a totalitarian country, the Soviet Union, and having seen the hardships that my family endured--both while there and trying to leave--I certainly am particularly sensitive to the stifling of individual liberties.

Any conversation I have about innovation starts with the power of the individual to try something new.

From you we have learned what we, at least, value, to separate Church and State and from you we gather inspiration at all times in our devotion to learning, to religious liberty, and to individual and National freedom.