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Quotes About Individual

The individual struggling with overwhelming emotions and DBT therapists will benefit significantly from this workbook.
~ Matthew McKay
Noah was many things, but funny was not one of them.
~ Maureen Johnson
These wires run a current through it. When we press the one and the nine at the same time, the current runs through the diamond and it emits a pulse that we can't hear or feel, but it... Explodes ghosts. I prefer to think that it disperses the vestigial energy that an individual leaves behind after death. Or that, I said.
~ Maureen Johnson
In the transition to statism, every infringement of human rights has begun with a given right's least attractive practitioners
~ Ayn Rand
What I've got to offer you is your life.' 'It's not yours to offer...
~ Ayn Rand
No group has any proper intellectual leadership today or any proper representation.
~ Ayn Rand
When you violate the rights of one man, you have violated the rights of all, and a public of rightless creatures is doomed to destruction.
~ Ayn Rand
The Romanticists did not present a hero as a statistical average, but as an abstraction of man's best and highest potentiality, applicable to and achievable by all men, in various degrees, according to their individual choices.
~ Ayn Rand
When facing society, the man most concerned, the man who is to do the most and contribute the most, has the least say.
~ Ayn Rand
there is really only one proper function: the protection of individual rights.
~ Ayn Rand
When numbers are substituted for morality, and no individual can claim a right, but any gang can assert any desire whatever, when compromise is the only policy expected of those in power, and the preservation of the moment's "stability," of peace at any price, is their only goal—the winner, necessarily, is whoever presents the most unjust and irrational demands; the system serves as an open invitation to do so.
~ Ayn Rand
A group, as such, has no rights. A man can neither acquire new rights by joining a group nor lose the rights which he does possess. The principle of individual rights is the only moral base of all groups or associations. Any group that does not recognize this principle is not an association, but a gang or a mob.
~ Ayn Rand
a man has rights which neither god nor king nor other men can take away from him, no matter what their number, for his is the right of man, and there is no right on earth above this right.
~ Ayn Rand
Debo recordarte también que el derecho a la vida es la fuente de la que manan todos los derechos, incluido el derecho de propiedad.
~ Ayn Rand
To deny property rights means to turn men into property owned by the state. Whoever claims the "right" to "redistribute" the wealth produced by others is claiming the "right" to treat human beings as chattel.
~ Ayn Rand
La più piccola minoranza al mondo è l'individuo. Chiunque neghi i diritti dell'individuo non può sostenere di essere un difensore delle minoranze.
~ Ayn Rand
Sin derechos de propiedad ningún otro derecho es posible.
~ Ayn Rand
Once evil is individualized, becoming part of everyday life, the way of resisting it also becomes individual. How does the soul survive? is the essential question. And the response is: through love and imagination.
~ Azar Nafisi
The price one pays when choosing exile is the loss of all that defines you as an individual. The only thing that makes this immense loss tolerable is the discovery of a self you did not know existed - of a true independence. That is the real gift of America, not its fabled wealth and prosperity.
~ Azar Nafisi
The desperate truth of Lolita's story is not the rape of a twelve-year-old by a dirty old man but the confiscation of one individual's life by another.
~ Azar Nafisi
It is said that the personal is political. That is not true, of course. At the core of the fight for political rights is the desire to protect ourselves, to prevent the political from intruding on our individual lives. Personal and political are interdependent but not one and the same thing.
~ Azar Nafisi
It is said that the personal is political. That is not true, of course. At the core of the fight for political rights is the desire to protect ourselves, to prevent the political from intruding on our individual lives. Personal and political are interdependent but not one and the same thing. The realm of imagination is a bridge between them, constantly refashioning one in terms of the other. Plato's
~ Azar Nafisi
Our history has always been the sum total of the choices made and the actions taken by each individual man and woman
~ Barack Obama
remarks to the graduates that evening, I spoke about the American idea: what their accomplishment said about our individual determination to reach past the circumstances of our birth, as well as our collective capacity to overcome our differences to meet the challenges of our time.
~ Barack Obama